The Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report

The mission of the AIIDE conference is to provide a forum for researchers and game developers to discuss ways that AI can enhance games and other forms of interactive entertainment. In addition to presentations on adapting standard AI techniques such as search, planning, and machine learning for use within games, key topic areas include creating realistic autonomous characters, interactive narrative, procedural content generation, and integrating AI into game design and production tools. One hundred forty-four participants from 11 countries attended AIIDE 2013. The main program included 16 oral paper presentations, 16 posters, and 3 demonstrations, with an acceptance rate of 27 percent for the main research track. Submissions were reviewed by four program committee members using a new strengths/weaknesses rating system designed to select papers with high potential to influence future game developers.