AIIDE-WS-2020
AIIDE 2020 Workshops

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 40 papers submitted for peer-review to these workshops. Out of these, 30 papers were accepted for this volume, 27 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Workshop 1: Experimental AI in Games

• Tokamak Elementary: Visual Novel Meets Natural Language Understanding (short paper)
  Daniel Darabos , Gyorgy Lajtai , Andras Nemeth
• SMES: Adapting Dexterity-based Games for Deliberative Play
  Batu Aytemiz , Hunter Lynch , Carl Erez , Adam M. Smith
• Generative Text using Classical Nondeterminism
  Ian Horswill
• Benchmarking Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for NPC Players in Casual Video Games (short paper)
  Gema Parreño Piqueras
• Warm Rocks for Cold Lizards: Generating Meaningful Quests in Caves of Qud (short paper)
  Jason Grinblat , C. Brian Bucklew
• Pathfinding Agents for Platformer Level Repair
  Seth Cooper , Anurag Sarkar
• Explainability via Responsibility
  Faraz Khadivpour , Matthew Guzdial
• Synthesizing Retro Game Screenshot Datasets for Sprite Detection
  Chanha Kim , Jaden Kim , Joseph C. Osborn
• TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
  Raluca D. Gaina , Martin Balla , Alexander Dockhorn , Raúl Montoliu , Diego Perez-Liebana
• Generating Gameplay-Relevant Art Assets with Transfer Learning
  Adrian Gonzalez , Matthew Guzdial , Felix Ramos
• Extracting Physics from Blended Platformer Game Levels
  Adam Summerville , Anurag Sarkar , Sam Snodgrass , Joseph Osborn
• Grammar Based Modular Level Generator for a Programming Puzzle Game
  Chaima Jemmali , Carter Ithier , Seth Cooper , Magy Seif El-Nasr
• Precomputing Player Movement in Platformers for Level Generation with Reachability Constraints
  Vivian Lee , Nathan Partlan , Seth Cooper
• Towards Automatically Abridging Game Levels
  Varun Bhat , Gillian Smith
• Entity Embedding as Game Representation
  Nazanin Yousefzadeh Khameneh , Matthew Guzdial
• Conditional Level Generation and Game Blending
  Anurag Sarkar , Zhihan Yang , Seth Cooper

Workshop 2: Intelligent Narrative Technologies

• Towards Managing Epistemic Complexity in Narrative Games
  Jennifer Wellnitz , Chris Martens
• Toward Example-Driven Program Synthesis of Story Sifting Patterns
  Max Kreminski , Noah Wardrip-Fruin , Michael Mateas
• Fantastic Strings and Where to Find Them: The Quest for High-Quality Video Game Text Corpora
  Judith van Stegeren , Mariët Theune
• Leveraging Efficient Planning and Lightweight Agent Definition: A Novel Path Towards Emergent Narrative
  Henry Raymond , Sven Knobloch , Fabio Zünd , Robert W. Sumner , Stéphane Magnenat
• What is a Quest?
  Kristen K. Yu , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Matthew Guzdial
• Scoring Integrated Meaningful Play in Story-Driven Games with Q-Learning
  Alan Bettis , Danielle Newberry , Hector Munoz-Avila
• Camelot: A Modular Customizable Sandbox for Visualizing Interactive Narratives
  Alireza Shirvani , Stephen G. Ware
• Exploring Regression-Based Narrative Planning
  Stephen G. Ware , Orion Fisher
• Towards a Critical Technical Practice of Narrative Intelligence
  Chris Martens , Gillian Smith

Workshop 3: Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games

• A Reasoning-Based Defogger for Opponent Army Composition Inference Under Partial Observability
  Hao Pan
• MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
  Yu-Jhen Hsu , Diego Perez-Liebana
• Transfer Learning Between RTS Combat Scenarios Using Component-Action Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Richard Kelly , David Churchill
• Bandit-Based Policy Optimization for Monte Carlo Tree Search in RTS Games
  Zuozhi Yang , Santiago Ontañón
• STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
  Alexander Dockhorn , Jorge Hurtado-Grueso , Dominik Jeurissen , Diego Perez-Liebana