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

1st Workshop on What's Next for AI in Games? at the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)

Workshop Date: February 4, 2017

Submissions: (submissions are closed)

Abstract:
With the recent success of AlphaGo, computers now dominate the field of classic board games. While many researchers have already broadened their games-related research beyond the goal of achieving high performance in traditional games, the recent achievement of this milestone result makes it an appropriate time to reflect as a field on what is next in AI in games. With this workshop we seek to bring the broader AI community into this conversation.

This workshop will provide a place for AI researchers working in diverse areas such as machine learning, neural networks, human-aware AI, goal planning, game theory, robotics, and more to share their techniques and findings with those working in games research and the games industry. In the meantime, it provides a venue for game researchers to share their innovation and reflect on current challenges with the broad AI community.

This workshop will consist of three main components: Peer-reviewed paper presentations, invited talks on recent research, and short position talks and a panel discussion on the future of AI in games. We are particularly interested in seeing work that bridges between research communities, applying new approaches or applying work in new or novel domains. Anyone with an interest in AI and Games should consider submitting to or attending this workshop.

Location:
Hosted at Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17)
Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. February 4, 2017

Workshop Website and Submission Details: http://movingai.com/aigames17/

Co-Organizers: Nathan R Sturtevant, University of Denver
Aaron Isaksen, NYU
Julian Togelius, NYU
Jichen Zhu, Drexel University

Important Dates:
Deadline for paper submissions: October 31, 2016
Notification for accepted papers: November 18, 2016
Deadline for camera-ready papers: December 8, 2016
Workshop date: February 4, 2017

We welcome submissions as either:

Full papers describing novel research. Max. 8 pages including references, formatted using the AAAI author kit (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit17.zip).
Short position statement on the future of AI and Games, open problems in game AI, and potential new uses of AI in Games. 500-1000 words not including references (accepted statements will need to be formatted using AAAI author kit)

Research papers may cover a variety of topics within AI for Games, including but not limited to:

Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data Analysis, Reinforcement Learning, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning and their applications towards Game AI
Computational Creativity, Mixed Initiative Co-creation, Human-Aware AI, Procedural Content Generation for Games
Computer Perception and Natural Language Processing for Games
Planning and Reasoning, Computational Narrative, Storytelling
Search methods and Knowledge representations for game systems
Multi-Agent Systems, Intelligent Agents, Player Modeling
Training and evaluation AI systems using Games
Core AI research with applications in Games

Conference Information:
More information about the entire AAAI 17 conference, including accommodations arrangements, can be found at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai17.php

For more information and for paper submission details see http://movingai.com/aigames17/