[agents] EAIA'16 - Advanced School on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR GAMES

[Paulo Novais]

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EAIA'16
Advanced School on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR GAMES (AI4G)
http://web.ipca.pt/eaia2016/
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    C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

  ** NEWS **
  - two new lecturers, both ECCAI Fellows:
    - Hélder Coelho (Portugal)
    - Pedro Meseguer (Spain)
  - registration is open

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APPIA [1], the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
is proud to announce EAIA'16, a Winter School dedicated to
Artificial Intelligence applied to Games [2].

EAIA'16 will be held in Barcelos, Portugal, from 17th to 19th
November, and will focus different aspects of how Artificial
Intelligence techniques can be applied to the development of
digital games.

Topics:
  - Decision Taking
  - AI-Assisted Game Design Tools
  - Advanced Path Finding
  - Gesture Recognition
  - Procedural Content Generation
  - Collision Avoidance
  - Adversarial Search in Strategy Games
  - Real Time Player Characterization

Venue:
  - Escola Superior de Tecnologia
    Campus do Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave
    Barcelos, Portugal

Lecturers:
  - Ben Sunshine-Hill (Havok)
  - Antonios Liapis   (University of Malta)
  - Hélder Coelho     (Universidade de Lisboa)
  - Pedro Meseguer    (Spanish National Research Council)
  - João Dias         (INESC-ID)
  - Penousal Machado  (Universidade de Coimbra)
  - Luís Paulo Reis   (Universidade do Minho)
  - Rui Mendes        (Universidade do Minho)
  - Davide Carneiro   (Universidade do Minho)
  - Duarte Duque      (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave)
  - Alberto Simões    (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave)

Registration:
  - Three day school registration - €50
    (includes coffee breaks and three lunches)
  - Three day school registration and accommodation - €150
    (also includes three night hotel, from 17-20 November)

Organization:
  - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence

Support:
  - Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave
  - Sociedade Portuguesa de Video Jogos

Organization Committee:
  - Event Chair: Alberto Simões (IPCA)
  - Program Chairs: Paulo Novais (UM) & Alberto Simões (IPCA)
  - Organization Chair: Pedro Henriques (UM)
  - Financial Chair: Goretti Marreiros (ISEP/IPP)
  - Local support: Mário João Vale


[1] http://www.appia.pt/
[2] http://web.ipca.pt/eaia2016/

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Paulo Novais
Universidade do Minho
Escola de Engenharia
Departamento de Informática / Centro ALGORITMI
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL

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