Workshops Held at the Ninth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE): A Report

Workshops were held on the two days prior to the start of the main conference, giving attendees a chance to hold indepth discussions on topics that complement the themes of the main conference program. This year the workshops included the First Workshop on AI and Game Aesthetics (1 day), the Second Workshop on AI in the Game Design Process (1 day), the Second International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (2 day), and the Sixth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (2 day). The goal of the Second Workshop on AI in the Game Design Process was to encourage the use of AI in enhancing the process of designing games and to enable new kinds of games that would be unreachable without intelligent automation. The Second International Workshop on Musical Metacreation brought together leading researchers, and practitioners investigating the design, development, and evaluation of computational systems for the autonomous generation of music. This report summarizes and highlights these three workshops.