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Game AI Special Session of the
8th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN-2014)

May 15-17, 2014
Ioannina, Greece

URL: http://setn2014.cs.uoi.gr/

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The video game industry is continuously growing into an important economic player, impacting an ever expanding and diverse demographic; the need for original gameplay, multimodal interfaces and faster methods of content creation push video game AI towards new frontiers and challenges. Moreover, games as interactive and engaging media are ideal to validate and evaluate AI algorithms for agent control and content generation.

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in all relevant applications of AI in the field of video games to discuss current work and future directions. This interaction will allow the communities to come closer and target joint goals for a wider impact.

We invite short and full papers on theoretical and practical aspects involving (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Learning in Games (Video, Board, Card)
- Procedural Game Content Generation
- Game Data Mining
- Player Modeling
- Search and Planning in Games
- AI-assisted Game Design
- Believable Agents
- Computational Narrative
- Computational Creativity
- General Game Artificial Intelligence


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 13, 2014
Notification date: February 17, 2014
Camera ready submission deadline: March 5, 2014
SETN-2014 conference: May 15-17, 2014


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Potential participants are invited to submit either a full length paper (10-14 pages) or a short paper (5-6) in Springer LNCS format:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0

Author names should be included and papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format by January 13, 2014.

Submission website:

http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/SETN2014

The proceedings of the SETN-2014 conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI/LNCS series. Moreover, extended versions of selected best papers will be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

Submitting a paper to the conference means that in case of acceptance, at least one author is required to fully register for the conference in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
Manolis Maragoudakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Mark J. Nelson, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Diego Perez, University of Essex, UK
Mike Preuss, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Tom Schaul, Deep Mind, UK
Anastasios Tefas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Julian Togelius, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Antonios Liapis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Spyridon Samothrakis, University of Essex, UK
Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta, Malta
Stavros Vassos, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy