universAAL - D8.5-B: AAL Competition

This document reports the structure and organization of AAL competition (hereafter called EvAAL, that stands for Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking). It first summarizes the purpose of EvAAL with respect to both the other deliverables of the community building and to the architecture, platform and services of universAAL. Then, this document discusses the background of EvAAL, in particular how EvAAL fits the community building strategy and its purpose from a technical point of view. Then it discuss the organization and structure of EvAAL, summarizing the structure of the committees and their roles, the financial aspects, specifying how to drive the future competitions, and the modalities of marketing of EvAAL. Lastly it explains how the first EvAAL competition has been organized, specifying the location chosen, the organization of the web-site, the call for competition, the evaluation criteria, and the dataset we produced. Finally, the roadmap to the next competition is given.