Special Session:

AI uses in designing and playing RTS and MOBA games

Research on RTS and more recently on MOBA games has known an increasing interest in the last 10 years, in particular with AI for playing RTS and MOBA games. This is thanks to a combination of available APIs, AI competitions and the grand challenge these strategy games offer. Beyond AI playing games, the Game AI community also started to tackle other aspects of RTS and MOBA games, such as game design and procedural generation.

This 1-day special session aims to bring together Game AI researchers, Game AI programmers and Game designers from industry who are interested in RTS and MOBA games. The goal is to present and share ideas about how AI can contribute to improve RTS and MOBA mechanical opponents, NPCs, design, balance, map generation, assistance AI, matchmaking, game tutorial, etc.

Topics

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Automated testing,
• Dealing with uncertainty,
• Game balancing,
• Heuristic search,
• Long-term planning,
• Map and level generation,
• Opponent modelling,
• Plan and goal recognition,
• Prior, in-game and inter-game learning,
• Procedural generation,
• Rules generation,
• Spatial and temporal reasoning,
• State and action abstraction,
• Task decomposition.

Organising team

• Santiago Ontañón, Google / Drexel University
• Mike Preuss, Universiteit Leiden
• Florian Richoux, Université de Nantes / CNRS, NII

Program committee members / Reviewers

• Nicolas Barriga, Universidad de Talca
• Michael Buro, University of Alberta
• David Churchill, Memorial University
• Tomoyuki Kaneko, University of Tokyo
• Levi Lelis, University of Alberta
• Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Lehight University
• Dennis Soemers, Maastricht University

Submission

For the submission, authors need to follow this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cog2020

Further details on paper submissions can be found at https://ieee-cog.org/2020/cfp