Competitions in IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2012)

[Antonio J. Fernandez Leiva]

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2012)
Granada, Spain
12-15 September, 2012 (these dates might be subject to minor
adjustments)

http://geneura.ugr.es/cig2012/

Games have proven to be an ideal domain for the study of computational
intelligence as not only are they fun to play and interesting to
observe, but they provide competitive and dynamic environments that
model many real-world problems. Additionally, methods from
computational intelligence promise to have a big impact on game
technology and development, assisting designers and developers and
enabling new types of computer games.

The 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia
and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions
in this quickly moving field.

Competitions
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CIG 2012 competitions are ideally targeted to the whole community of
computational intelligence.
The competitions involve well-known (or not so) games, defining a set
of rules and objectives for determining the score of each player.
Currently there are a number of competitions such as

- Simulated Car Racing Championship
- StarCraft Competition
- Physical Travelling Salesman Problem
- Ms Pac-Man vs Ghost Team Competition
- Ms Pac-Man Screen Capture Competition
- Mario AI Championship: Level Generation Track
- Mario AI Championship: Turing Test Track

You can participate in the competitions by submitting your proposal on-
line (without attending the conference).Visit the following link for
more information

http://geneura.ugr.es/cig2012/competitions.html

Competition Papers
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Following on from last year's successful competition track, IEEE CIG
also this year invites submission for competition papers, i.e. papers
that relate to submissions to one of the competitions associated with
IEEE CIG 2012 (some competitions are already accepted such as the
Simulated Car Racing Championship).

These papers will be fully peer-reviewed with the same stringency as
all other CIG papers and, if accepted, will be published as full
papers in the proceedings. The papers will be reviewed in a short time
frame by a small group of dedicated reviewers, and due to time limits
no extensions can be granted.

The main restriction is that each paper needs to describe a submission
to one of the competitions associated with IEEE CIG 2012. The focus of
the paper can be on the architecture of the submission, comparative
studies, underlying ideas etc., but the software described must enter
one of the competitions. As with regular papers, at least one author
of a successful paper needs to attend the conference and present the
paper.

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Antonio J. Fernandez-Leiva
general chair of CIG'2012
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