Karlsruhe Brainstormers - Design Principles

The following paper describes the design principles of decision making in the Karlruhe Brainstormers team that participated in the RoboCup Simulator League in Stockholm 1999. It is based on two basic ingredigents: the priority - probability - quality (PPQ) concept is a hybrid rule-based/ learning approach for tactical decisons, whereas the definition of goal-orientented moves allows to apply neural network based reinforcement learning techniques on the lower level.