Workshop on Agents in Computer Games

Schedule is now published

OVERVIEW

The aim of this workshop is to bring together agent and game researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of artificial agent research to modern computer and video games. We hope to provide a forum for research already applied to this domain, as well as exciting work in other relevant domains. In addition we hope to create a connection between AI researchers and game developers. The synergy of these two communities would offer great benefits for both. Researchers would get an inside view of the challenges and goals of current computer game AI. Game developers could see the current state of the art in artificial agent research in a form that is relevant to their future products.

Submissions are encouraged from agent and AI researchers. Agent research that has yet to be applied, but is relevant and promising, to computer games is also very much encouraged. Submissions along these lines should include thoughts on how their work might fit into a computer game agent, challenges it addresses, and the strengths and weaknesses of their work in the context of computer games. Topics within computer game agents include, but are not limited to,

• Teamwork, coordination, and communication
• Planning in highly dynamic environments
• Multi-agent learning and adaptation
• Human-agent interaction
• Opponent modeling
• Believable and emotional agents
• Evaluation and benchmarks
• Test-beds and game interfaces
• Challenges faced by AI in commercial games
• Improving collaboration between the game industry and researchers

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Game developers that are interested in presenting may instead submit a position abstract or a description of challenges facing commercial game AI design.

All submissions are due by April 15. They should be in postscript or PDF format and submitted electronically. The submission site is http://reef.coral.cs.cmu.edu/aicg/submit.

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