[bull-ia] CFP: Special Track Game AI at IEA/AIE 2017 (abstract Dec. 08, paper

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Special Track Game AI at IEA/AIE 2017, June 27-30, 2017 Arras
(near Paris, France)

Context

Among numerous possibles applications of Artificial
Intelligence, games are convenient and efficient testbeds to
develop innovating techniques and methods. By games, we mean every
game playable through a computer: video games, board games,
serious games, etc.

Behind the fun side, games propose a simplified environment
regarding to the real world, while remaining rich enough to also
propose scientifically pertinent problems: understanding of a
dynamic environment, knowledge extraction, decision-making upon
incomplete information, planning, cooperation, learning or
mimicking credible behaviors, optimization, path-finding, etc.

Many of these problems are common to others research fields such
as robotics, but games offer a greater flexibility: thanks to
their dematerialized nature, these environments are inexpensive,
transportable, need no physical maintenance and propose a highly
controllable time flow (accelerated, paused, etc).

Scope

Topics of interest for this special track on Game AI include,
but are not limited to:

Planning;
Decision-making in a dynamic and/or incomplete information
environment;
Data-mining;
CSP/SAT, combinatorial optimization;
Cooperative or competitive multi-agent systems;
Game rules and/or behaviors learning;
Spacial and temporal reasoning;
Credible behaviors (emotion, personality), player immersion;

Storytelling generation;
User experience;
Path-finding;
Game play programming;
Engine programming;
Serious games/applications, Game with A Purpose (GWAP).

Important dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 8th 2016

Paper Submission Deadline: December 15th 2016

Preliminary Program Committee

Carole Adam (Universite de Grenoble)
Stephane Cardon (Saint-Cyr Coetquidan)
Tristan Cazenave (Universite Paris Dauphine), Chair
Eric Jacopin (Saint-Cyr Coetquidan)
Mehdi Kaytoue (Insa Lyon)
Philippe Mathieu (Universite Lille 1)
Eric Piette (Universite d’Artois)
Chedy Raissi (Inria Nancy Grand-Est)
Florian Richoux (Universite de Nantes), Chair
Abdallah Saffidine (University of New South Wales)


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