Frontmatter
| Organization | |
| Ian Horswill |
| Sponsors | |
| Ian Horswill |
| Preface | |
| Ian Horswill, Arnav Jhala |
| AIIDE 2014 StarCraft Competition | |
| Michael Buro, David Churchill |
| Invited Talks | |
| Peter Carr, Squirrel (Brian) Eiserloh, Peter Ingebretson |
Full Papers
| Belief-Driven Pathfinding through Personalized Map Abstraction | |
| Davide Aversa, Stavros Vassos |
| Foreseeing Meaningful Choices | |
| Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Justus Robertson, Stephen G. Ware, Brent Harrison, David L. Roberts, R. Michael Young |
| Spice It Up! Enriching Open World NPC Simulation Using Constraint Satisfaction | |
| Martin Cerny, Cyril Brom, Roman Bartak, Martin Antos |
| Analytics-Driven Dynamic Game Adaption for Player Retention in a 2-Dimensional Adventure Game | |
| Brent Edward Harrison, David Roberts |
| Towards Personalised Gaming via Facial Expression Recognition | |
| Paris Mavromoustakos Blom, Sander Bakkes, Chek Tien Tan, Shimon Whiteson, Diederik Roijers, Roberto Valenti, Theo Gevers |
| Deep Learning-Based Goal Recognition in Open-Ended Digital Games | |
| Wookhee Min, Eun Young Ha, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott, James Lester |
| An AI System for Large Open Virtual World | |
| Tomas Plch, Matej Marko, Petr Ondracek, Martin Cerny, Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom |
| Walling in Strategy Games via Constraint Optimization | |
| Florian Richoux, Alberto Uriarte, Santiago Ontañón |
| A Hierarchical Approach to Generating Maps Using Markov Chains | |
| Sam Snodgrass, Santiago Ontanon |
| Hierarchical Adversarial Search Applied to Real-Time Strategy Games | |
| Marius Stanescu, Nicolas A. Barriga, Michael Buro |
| Game-Tree Search over High-Level Game States in RTS Games | |
| Alberto Uriarte, Santiago Ontañón |
| Glaive: A State-Space Narrative Planner Supporting Intentionality and Conflict | |
| Stephen G. Ware, R. Michael Young |
| Generative Methods for Guard and Camera Placement in Stealth Games | |
| Qihan Xu, Jonathan Tremblay, Clark Verbrugge |
| Using Cyclic Scheduling to Generate Believable Behavior in Games | |
| Richard Zhao, Duane Szafron |
Poster Papers
| PaTux: An Authoring Tool for Level Design through Pattern Customisation Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization | |
| Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Noor Shaker |
| The Real-Time Strategy Game Multi-Objective Build Order Problem | |
| Jason Blackford, Gary Lamont |
| Global State Evaluation in StarCraft | |
| Graham Kurtis Stephen Erickson, Michael Buro |
| Game AI Planning Analytics: The Case of Three First-Person Shooters | |
| Eric Jacopin |
| Developing Social Identity Models of Players from Game Telemetry Data | |
| Chong-U Lim, D. Fox Harrell |
| Fuzzy Affective Player Models: A Physiology-Based Hierarchical Clustering Method | |
| Pedro Alves Nogueira, Rúben Aguiar, Rui Amaral Rodrigues, Eugénio Costa Oliveira, Lennart Nacke |
| Evaluating Play Trace (Dis)similarity Metrics | |
| Joseph Carter Osborn, Ben Samuel, Joshua Allen McCoy, Michael Mateas |
| Emotion-Based Interactive Storytelling with Artificial Intelligence | |
| Sergio Poo Hernandez, Vadim Bulitko, Emilie St. Hilaire |
| Finding Schrödinger’s Gun | |
| Justus Robertson, R. Michael Young |
| Optimizing Player Experience in Interactive Narrative Planning: A Modular Reinforcement Learning Approach | |
| Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott, James Lester |
| Alone We Can Do So Little, Together We Can Do So Much: A Combinatorial Approach for Generating Game Content | |
| Noor Shaker, Mohamed Abou-Zleikha |
| Hide and Sneak: Story Generation with Characters that Perceive and Assume | |
| Hans ten Brinke, Jeroen Linssen, Mariët Theune |
| Exploring Abductive Event Binding for Opportunistic Storytelling | |
| Emmett Tomai |
| Toward Automatic Role Identification in Unannotated Folk Tales | |
| Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontañón |
| Learning Micro-Management Skills in RTS Games by Imitating Experts | |
| Jay Young, Nick Hawes |
Playable Experiences
| Playable Experiences at AIIDE 2014 | |
| Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jeff Orkin, Robert Zubek, Michael Cook, Stephen G. Ware, Christian Stith, R. Michael Young, Phillip Wright, Squirrel Eiserloh, Alejandro Ramirez-Sanabria, Vadim Bulitko, Kieran Lord |
Doctoral Consortium
| Organizer | |
| Noor Shaker |
| Leveraging Parallel Architectures in AI Search Algorithms for Games | |
| Nicolas A. Barriga |
| Unsupervised Learning of HTNs in Complex Adversarial Domains | |
| Michael A. Leece |
| Investigating Collaborative Creativity via Machine-Mediated Game Blending | |
| Phil Lopes, Georgios N. Yannakakis |
| Leveraging Communication for Player Modeling and Cooperative Play | |
| Trevor Sarratt |
| Probabilistic Foundations for Procedural Level Generation | |
| Sam Snodgrass |
Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games Workshop
| Organizers | |
| Michael Buro, Santi Ontañón |
| Preface | |
| Michael Buro, Santi Ontañón |
| Building Placement Optimization in Real-Time Strategy Games | |
| Nicolas A. Barriga, Marius Stanescu, Michael Buro |
| Sequential Pattern Mining in StarCraft: Brood War for Short and Long-Term Goals | |
| Michael A. Leece, Arnav Jhala |
| High-Level Representations for Game-Tree Search in RTS Games | |
| Alberto Uriarte, Santiago Ontañón |
Experimental AI in Games Workshop
| Organizers | |
| Alexander E. Zook |
| A Rogue Dream: Automatically Generating Meaningful Content For Games | |
| Michael Cook, Simon Colton |
| Asymmetric Virtual Environments: Exploring the Effects of Avatar Colors on Performance | |
| Ignacio X. Domínguez, David L. Roberts |
| Towards Computational Co-Creation in Modding Communities | |
| Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher |
| Toward Generating 3D Games with the Help of Commonsense Knowledge and the Crowd | |
| Rania Hodhod, Marc Huet, Mark Riedl |
| Game Design for Classical AI | |
| Ian D. Horswill |
| Towards the Automatic Generation of Fictional Ideas for Games | |
| Maria Teresa Llano, Michael Cook, Christian Guckelsberger, Simon Colton, Rose Hepworth |
| Gameplay as On-Line Mediation Search | |
| Justus Robertson, R. Michael Young |
| Educational Neurogaming: EEG-Controlled Videogames as Interactive Teaching Tools For Introductory Neuroscience | |
| David Schwarz, Vivek Subramanian, Katie Zhuang, Christine Adamczyk |
| The Future of Procedural Content Generation in Games | |
| Gillian Smith |
| I Can Jump! Exploring Search Algorithms for Simulating Platformer Players | |
| Jonathan Tremblay, Alexander Borodovski, Clark Verbrugge |
| The General Mediation Engine | |
| Justus Robertson, R. Michael Young |
| Integrated Pathfinding and Player Analysis for Touch-Driven Games | |
| Tommy Thompson, Michele Vinciguerra |
Games and NLP Workshop
| Organizers | |
| Noriko Tomuro, Kristy Boyer, Yun-Gyung Cheong |
| Objective | |
| Noriko Tomuro, Kristy Boyer, Yun-Gyung Cheong |
| Games as Conversation | |
| Rogelio Enrique Cardona-Rivera, Robert Michael Young |
| Generating Game Narratives with Focalization and Flashbacks | |
| Marissa Hoek, Mariët Theune, Jeroen Linssen |
| Architectural Issues for Compositional Dialog in Games | |
| Ian D. Horswill |
| Automating Direct Speech Variations in Stories and Games | |
| Stephanie M. Lukin, James O. Ryan, Marilyn A. Walker |
| Using Game Reviews to Recommend Games | |
| Michael Meidl, Steven L. Lytinen, Kevin Raison |
| Mr. Clue — A Virtual Agent that Can Play Word-Guessing Games | |
| Eli Pincus, David DeVault, David Traum |
| Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification for Games-Related Tweets | |
| Trevor Sarratt, Soja-Marie Morgens, Arnav Jhala |
| Exploring Narrative Structure with MMORPG Quest Stories | |
| Emmett Tomai, Eric Martinez, Lucian Silcox |
| Adapting Automatic Speech Recognition for Foreign Language Learners in a Serious Game | |
| Joshua Travis Winebarger |
Musical Metacreation Workshop
| Organizers | |
| Philippe Pasquier |
| Preface | |
| Philippe Pasquier, Arne Eigenfeldt, Oliver Roland Bown |
| Generating Structure – Towards Large-Scale Formal Generation | |
| Arne Eigenfeldt |
| Artik: Articulation and Dynamics from Structural Pattern Analysis | |
| Eliot Handelman, Andie J. Sigler |
| Studying the Effect of Metre Perception on Rhythm and Melody Modelling with LSTMs | |
| Andrew John Lambert, Tillman Weyde, Newton Armstrong |
| Motivation, Microdrives and Microgoals in Mockingbird | |
| Michael Francis Lynch |
| A Genetically Generated Drone A/V Composition Using Video Analysis as a ‘Disturbance Factor’ to the Fitness Function | |
| Tristan McGuire, Giuseppe Torre |
| Implications of Ad Hoc Artificial Intelligence in Music | |
| Evan X. Merz |
| Ferin Martino: A Small Piano Algorithm and Its Lessons on Creativity, Interaction, and Expression | |
| Jeffrey M. Morris |
| A Hierarchical System for Autonomous Musical Creation | |
| M. Anthony Reimer, Guy E. Garnett |
| Genomic: Combining Genetic Algorithms and Corpora to Evolve Sound Treatments | |
| Thomas M. Stoll |
| Guided Music Synthesis with Variable Markov Oracle | |
| Cheng-i Wang, Shlomo Dubnov |