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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

             The Workshop on AI in Games AIG-08
                       Patras, Greece
                         July 22, 2008
           http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/ecai-aig2008/
        Held at the European Conference on AI ECAI-08

                      INVITED SPEAKER:
                     Jonathan Schaeffer
                University of Alberta, Canada

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The Workshop on AI in Games AIG-08 is targeted to both academic
researchers and practitioners that actively try to use new
technologies in game development. The event continues previous efforts
to bridge the gap between the two communities.

From an academic perspective, games are an excellent testbed for many
AI fields. Puzzles and board games are typical applications of areas
such as heuristic search and learning. Video games contain a large
diversity of domains for both single-agent and multi-agent
problems. They may or may not include features such as uncertainty,
dynamic environments, and hidden information. New ideas in fields such
as planning, search and learning can be developed and tested using a
game environment as a testbed.

On the practical side, games are a booming, multi-billion dollar
industry. Recent years have seen an increasing focus on making the
inhabitants of a game world smarter. The quality of a game is directly
impacted by character skills such as navigating on a map, acting
according to a meaningful plan, and learning from previous experience,
which need to be implemented using AI algorithms.

ORGANIZERS

Adi Botea
NICTA, Canberra Research Lab and
the Australian National University
8001 Locked Bag
Canberra ACT 2601

adi.botea@nicta.com.au
+612 6267 6310
http://abotea.rsise.anu.edu.au

Carlos Linares Lopez
Planning and Learning Group
Computer Science Department
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avda de la Universidad, 30
28911 Leganes
Madrid (Spain)

carlos.linares@uc3m.es
+34 91 624 91 12 (office nr)
http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/~clinares

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yngvi Bjornsson, Reykjavik University
Adi Botea, NICTA and Australian National University
Stefan Edelkamp, Dortmund University
Pedro Antonio Gonzalez Calero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Jaap van den Herik, Maastricht University
Andreas Junghanns, QTronic GmbH
Akihiro Kishimoto, Future University, Hakodate, Japan
Peter Kissmann, Dortmund University
Carlos Linares Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University
Alexander Nareyek, National University of Singapore
Dana Nau, University of Maryland
Jeff Orkin, MIT
Scott Sanner, NICTA and Australian National University