The Computers and Games 2024 conference is 25 years old and is held in even-numbered years (Advances in Computer Games is in the odd-numbered years). It originated in Japan and is now organized by the International Computer Games Association (https://icga.org/).

The Computers and Games conference (CG 2024) will feature cutting edge artificial intelligence technology as applied to computer games. This year’s conference is being held online November 26-28. It will feature outstanding keynote talks and refereed papers.

Conference attendance to view all talks will be free.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The current state of game-playing programs for classic and modern
• board games, card games, puzzles, virtual/casual/video games, etc.
• General game playing
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for games
• The history of computers in game-based research
• New theoretical developments in game-related research
• New and enhanced algorithms for search and knowledge acquisition
• Automated game design and evaluation
• Mathematical insights into games
• Social aspects of computer games
• Scientific contributions produced by the study of games
• Cognitive research of how (and why) humans play games and puzzles
• Capture and analysis of game data

Keynote Speakers

• Coming soon!

Submission

Please conform to the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
LaTeX preferred (Overleaf template available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WuA4JS5uZpi).

Submit a PDF version of your paper via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cg2024).
The proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in their LNCS series.

Note that although attending the conference is free, a fee of 50 Euros is charged for each accepted paper.

Dates

• Submission due: September 8, 2024 --) September 15, 2024 (Extended)
• Notification due: October 21, 2024
• Final version due: November 11, 2024
• Conference: November 26-28, 2024

Program Co-Chairs

• Michael Hartisch, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Committee

• Yngvi Bjornsson
• Bruno Bouzy
• Paolo Burelli
• Tristan Cazenave
• Lung-Pin Chen
• Reijer Grimbergen
• Matej Guid
• Ryan Hayward
• Hiroyuki Iida
• Nicolas Jouandeau
• Tomoyuki Kaneko
• Jakub Kowalski
• Sylvain Lagrue
• Martin Mueller
• Todd Neller
• Diego Perez Liebana
• Eric Piette
• Spyridon Samothrakis
• Dennis J. N. J. Soemers
• Matthew Stephenson
• Shogo Takeuchi
• Ruck Thawonmas
• Michael Thielscher
• Jaco van de Pol
• Jonathan K. Vis
• Ting Han Wei
• Mark H. M. Winands
• I-Chen Wu
• Ti-Rong Wu
• Shi-Jim Yen
• Kazuki Yoshizoe

Advisory Committee

• Cameron Browne, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• Akihiro Kishimoto, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan
• Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Canada

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cg2024(@)easychair.org.
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