AIIDE-WS-2020
AIIDE 2020 Workshops

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 40 papers submitted for peer-review to these workshops. Out of these, 30 papers were accepted for this volume, 27 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Workshop 1: Experimental AI in Games

• Tokamak Elementary: Visual Novel Meets Natural Language Understanding (short paper)
  Daniel Darabos, Gyorgy Lajtai, Andras Nemeth
• SMES: Adapting Dexterity-based Games for Deliberative Play
  Batu Aytemiz, Hunter Lynch, Carl Erez, Adam M. Smith
• Generative Text using Classical Nondeterminism
  Ian Horswill
• Benchmarking Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for NPC Players in Casual Video Games (short paper)
  Gema Parreño Piqueras
• Warm Rocks for Cold Lizards: Generating Meaningful Quests in Caves of Qud (short paper)
  Jason Grinblat, C. Brian Bucklew
• Pathfinding Agents for Platformer Level Repair
  Seth Cooper, Anurag Sarkar
• Explainability via Responsibility
  Faraz Khadivpour, Matthew Guzdial
• Synthesizing Retro Game Screenshot Datasets for Sprite Detection
  Chanha Kim, Jaden Kim, Joseph C. Osborn
• TAG: A Tabletop Games Framework
  Raluca D. Gaina, Martin Balla, Alexander Dockhorn, Raúl Montoliu, Diego Perez-Liebana
• Generating Gameplay-Relevant Art Assets with Transfer Learning
  Adrian Gonzalez, Matthew Guzdial, Felix Ramos
• Extracting Physics from Blended Platformer Game Levels
  Adam Summerville, Anurag Sarkar, Sam Snodgrass, Joseph Osborn
• Grammar Based Modular Level Generator for a Programming Puzzle Game
  Chaima Jemmali, Carter Ithier, Seth Cooper, Magy Seif El-Nasr
• Precomputing Player Movement in Platformers for Level Generation with Reachability Constraints
  Vivian Lee, Nathan Partlan, Seth Cooper
• Towards Automatically Abridging Game Levels
  Varun Bhat, Gillian Smith
• Entity Embedding as Game Representation
  Nazanin Yousefzadeh Khameneh, Matthew Guzdial
• Conditional Level Generation and Game Blending
  Anurag Sarkar, Zhihan Yang, Seth Cooper

Workshop 2: Intelligent Narrative Technologies

• Towards Managing Epistemic Complexity in Narrative Games
  Jennifer Wellnitz, Chris Martens
• Toward Example-Driven Program Synthesis of Story Sifting Patterns
  Max Kreminski, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas
• Fantastic Strings and Where to Find Them: The Quest for High-Quality Video Game Text Corpora
  Judith van Stegeren, Mariët Theune
• Leveraging Efficient Planning and Lightweight Agent Definition: A Novel Path Towards Emergent Narrative
  Henry Raymond, Sven Knobloch, Fabio Zünd, Robert W. Sumner, Stéphane Magnenat
• What is a Quest?
  Kristen K. Yu, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Matthew Guzdial
• Scoring Integrated Meaningful Play in Story-Driven Games with Q-Learning
  Alan Bettis, Danielle Newberry, Hector Munoz-Avila
• Camelot: A Modular Customizable Sandbox for Visualizing Interactive Narratives
  Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware
• Exploring Regression-Based Narrative Planning
  Stephen G. Ware, Orion Fisher
• Towards a Critical Technical Practice of Narrative Intelligence
  Chris Martens, Gillian Smith

Workshop 3: Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games

• A Reasoning-Based Defogger for Opponent Army Composition Inference Under Partial Observability
  Hao Pan
• MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
  Yu-Jhen Hsu, Diego Perez-Liebana
• Transfer Learning Between RTS Combat Scenarios Using Component-Action Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Richard Kelly, David Churchill
• Bandit-Based Policy Optimization for Monte Carlo Tree Search in RTS Games
  Zuozhi Yang, Santiago Ontañón
• STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
  Alexander Dockhorn, Jorge Hurtado-Grueso, Dominik Jeurissen, Diego Perez-Liebana