Through an internal university collaboration between the Department of Biomechanics, Kinesiology and Computer Science in Sport and the Research Group Workflow Systems and Technology from the Faculty of Computer Science, an article has been written and accepted for the International Conference on Computational Science 2022 (ICCS). The ICCS is an A-rank conference, this year's edition of which will take place from 21 - 23 June 2022 in London. More information about the conference can be found here:

https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2022/

The article is the result of a Bachelor's thesis by computer science student Moritz Renkin and has been co-authored by Jonas Bischofberger and Prof. Arnold Baca. It discusses various approaches to modeling the trajectorial motion of football players and presents a method to validate these models. This validation is an important foundation for measuring, simulating, and understanding tactical behavior in sports games.

An extended preprint version of the paper is available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13992