Games are an ideal domain to study computational intelligence methods in that they provide cheap, competitive, dynamic, reproducible environments suitable for testing new search algorithms, pattern-based evaluation methods, or learning concepts. They are also interesting to observe, fun to play, and very attractive to students. Additionally, there is a great potential for CI methods to improve the design and development of both computer games and non-digital games such as board games.
This special session aims at getting together leading researchers and practitioners in this field who study and apply computational intelligence methods to computer games.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

• Learning to play games
• Imitating human players
• Procedural content generation
• Player/opponent modelling
• Adaptation in games
• Games as testbeds for CI algorithms
• Comparative studies (e.g. CI versus human-designed players)
• Results of open competitions
• Multi-agent and multi-strategy learning
• Coevolution in games
• Results of game-based CI competitions
• Automatic game testing
• In general, any application of CI methods (reinforcement learning, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, fuzzy systems, game-tree methods etc) to games (card games, board games, mathematical games, action games, strategy games, role-playing games, arcade games, serious games etc).

Paper Submission

Submissions should follow the guidance given on the IEEE CEC 2013 conference website.
When submitting, please remember to select as the main research topic the Special Session on “Computational Intelligence and Games”.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for other contributed papers. All accepted papers will be included and published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: March 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: April 22, 2013
Camera-Ready Submission: May 6, 2013

Session Programme

Coming soon

Poster Sessions

Coming soon

Programme Commitee (to be confirmed)

Special Session Chairs

Philip Hingston Edith Cowan University

Mike Preuss TU Dortmund