[CIG 2012] Specific Call for COMPETITIONS Papers/Participation

[Julian Togelius]

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=                 CIG 2012                          =
= SPECIFIC CALL FOR COMPETITION PAPERS              =
= SPECIFIC CALL for PARTICIPATION IN COMPETITIONS   =
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IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG2012)
Granada, Spain
11-14 September, 2012

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.
There are confirmed a number of competitions:

- The 2k BotPrize
- 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

Visit the following link for more information:

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


Note that it is not required participants in competitions attend the
conference. In any case, 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
previous competitions.

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.


SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS TO PARTICIPATE IN COMPETITIONS
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Please, contact the competition chair to send your proposal.


SUBMISSION OF COMPETITION PAPERS
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   Submit your paper via the following site using your EasyChair login
information (choose the specific track on competition papers):

   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cig2012

The format of the paper is the same as for regular papers (see
conference web page).


IMPORTANT DATES
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 Competition Papers DEADLINE:
   Submission:   15 May
   Notification: 15 June
   Camera-Ready: 1 July

 Conference
   11-14 September

If you have any question, please contact the General Chair/Competition Chair
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General Chair: Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva
Competition Chair: Julian Togelius


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Julian Togelius
Assistant Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
mail: jul...@togelius.com, web: http://julian.togelius.com
mobile: +46-705-192088, office: +45-7218-5277