The 2018 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games follows a successful series of AIIDE workshops that were held in response to the considerable interest in the subject and the limited time for reporting on the annual StarCraft competition in the main AIIDE conference. The goal of the workshop is to bring together AI researchers and game AI programmers from industry, who are interested in strategic game AI, to present and exchange ideas on the subject, and to discuss how academia and game companies can work together to improve the state-of-the-art in AI for games. The Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) workshop aims to foster experimentation in game AI research and all forms of game development. In addition to presenting traditional academic talks and live demos of AI technology, EXAG welcomes a diverse community of researchers and practitioners with activities including a show-and-tell demo and gameplay session.
We would like to thank all authors who submitted their work to the workshops. We thank the program committee members for their insightful reviews and comments. We thank Chelsea Myers (Drexel University) for her help to organize the proceedings for CEUR-WS. Finally, we thank the AIIDE 2018 organizing committee, especially the AIIDE 2018 General Chair Jonathan Rowe (NC State), for their help and support.
The 2018 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for
The 5th Experimental AI in Games Workshop (EXAG)
Jo Mazeika, University of California, Santa Cruz Ethan Robison, Northwestern University Alex Zook, Blizzard Entertainment
Joe Mazeika, University of California, Santa Cruz Ethan Robison, Northwestern University Alexander Zook, Blizzard Entertainment Kate Compton, UCSC Matthew Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology Justus Robertson, North Carolina State University Boyang Li, Liulishuo Silicon Valley AI Lab Joseph Osborn, Pomona College Monique Abed, AAAI-18
Jeremy Gow, Queen Mary University of London Amy K. Hoover, New Jersey Institute of Technology Squirrel Eiserloh, SMU Guildhall Allison Parrish, New York University Christoffer Holmga˚rd, Northeastern University Peter A. Mawhorter, Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy Jonathan Tremblay, McGill University Andrew Stockdale, University of Kent Melanie Dickinson, University of California, Santa Cruz Nathan Sturtevant, University of Alberta Chong-U Lim, Improbable Kristin Siu, Georgia Institute of Technology Eric Butler, University of Washington Michael Cook, Goldsmiths College, University of London Sarah Harmon, UCSC Johnathan Pagnutti, University of California, Santa Cruz Sam Devlin, Microsoft Kazjon Grace, UNC Charlotte Martin Modra´k, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Malm O¨ Workshop (MARL O¨)
Diego Perez-Liebana, Queen Mary University of London Raluca D. Gaina, Queen Mary University of London Daniel Ionita, Queen Mary University of London Sharada P. Mohanty, E´ cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne Sam Devlin, Microsoft Research Andre Kramer, Microsoft Research Noburu (Sean) Kuno, Microsoft Research
Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research
Hendrik Baier, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tim Brys, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jose Hernandez-Orallo, TU Valencia Wojciech Jaskowsky, Poznan University of Technology Michal Kempka, Poznan University of Technology Jialin Liu, SUST Simon M. Lucas, QMUL Ann Nowe´, VUB
Edward Powley, Falmouth University Marcel Salathe´, EPFL Spyridon Samothrakis, University of Essex Harm van Sejien, Microsoft Research Montreal Marius Stanescu, University of Alberta Vanessa Volz, TU Dortmund Peter Vrancx, Prowler.io