AAAI 2017 Workshop on What's next for AI in games

Workshop Overview

Call For Papers

Workshop Program

What's Next in AI in Games

Saturday, February 4th
Union Square 1/2, Fourth Floor
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Workshop Livestream

Full Talks: 17 minutes + 3 minutes for questions
Short Talks: 5 minutes + 3 minutes for questions

9:00am - 10:30am Session

Welcome (10 minutes)

Deep Learning

• Clyde: A deep reinforcement learning DOOM playing agent
  Dino S. Ratcliffe

• Multi-focus Attention Network for Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Jinyoung Choi, Beom-Jin Lee and Byoung-Tak Zhang

• Formalizing Anthropomorphism Through Games: A Study in Deep Neural Networks
  Martin Zinkevich and Dale Schuurmans

Natural Language

• Towards Automatically Extracting Story Graphs from Natural Language Stories
  Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu and Santiago Ontañón

10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break (Union Square 19/20)

11:00am - 12:30pm Session

Game Play and Design

• Depth in Strategic Games
  Frank Lantz, Aaron Isaksen, Alexander Jaffe, Andy Nealen and Julian Togelius

• AI as Evaluator: Search Driven Playtesting of Modern Board Games
  Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Scott Lee, Julian Togelius and Andy Nealen

• Exploring Efficient Strategies for Minesweeper
  Jinzheng Tu, Tianhong Li, Shiteng Chen, Chong Zu and Zhaoquan Gu

• Mixed-Initiative Design via Large-Scale Search for The Witness Levels (short talk)
  Nathan Sturtevant and Matheus Ota

Ethics

• Ethical Considerations for Player Modeling
  Benedikte Mikkelsen, Christoffer Holmgard and Julian Togelius

12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch (on your own)

2:00pm - 3:30pm Session

Learning

• What Does That ?-Block Do? Learning Latent Causal Affordances From Mario Play Traces
  Adam Summerville, Morteza Behrooz, Michael Mateas and Arnav Jhala

• Rewards Structure in Games: Learning a Compact Representation for Action Space
  Margot Lisa-Jing Yann, Yves Lesperance and Aijun An

What's Next for AI in Games (Short Talks)

• Cognitively-grounded Procedural Content Generation
  Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera

• AI for Game Spectators: Rise of PPG
  Ruck Thawonmas and Tomohiro Harada

• Against Forward Models
  Joseph Osborn and Michael Mateas

• Back to the Past: Ancient Games as a New AI Frontier
  Cameron Browne

• Bridging the Gap Between Computational Narrative and Natural Language Processing
  Santiago Ontañón, Josep Valls-Vargas and Jichen Zhu

• Matchmaking Games
  Alexander Zook

3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break (Union Square 19/20)

4:00pm - 5:00pm Session

Panel: What's Next for AI In the Games Industry?

• Robin Hunicke (Funomena, UCSC)
• Frank Lantz (NYU Game Center)
• Ben Weber (Twitch)
• Alexander Zook (Riot Games)