Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC), Settlement Generation Competition

This paper introduces the settlement generation competition for Minecraft, the first part of the Generative Design in Minecraft challenge. The settlement generation competition is about creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents that can produce functional, aesthetically appealing and believable settlements adapted to a given Minecraft map - ideally at a level that can compete with human created designs. The aim of the competition is to advance procedural content generation for games, especially in overcoming the challenges of adaptive and holistic PCG. The paper introduces the technical details of the challenge, but mostly focuses on what challenges this competition provides and why they are scientifically relevant.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, Part of the Foundations of Digital Games 2018 proceedings, as part of the workshop on Procedural Content Generatio

Proceedings of the 1st Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (DC-ECAI 2020)

1st Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (DC-ECAI 2020), 29-30 August, 2020 Santiago de Compostela, SpainThe DC-ECAI 2020 provides a unique opportunity for PhD students, who are close to finishing their doctorate research, to interact with experienced researchers in the field. Senior members of the community are assigned as mentors for each group of students based on the student’s research or similarity of research interests. The DC-ECAI 2020, which is held virtually this year, allows students from all over the world to present their research and discuss their ongoing research and career plans with their mentor, to do networking with other participants, and to receive training and mentoring about career planning and career option

Gaming and the Metaverse: Trailblazing the Future of Information Systems and Platforms

Video games and its industry are leading practice in a variety of digital domains including autonomous design (procedural generation with AI) and real-time user/community engagement mechanisms. The gaming industry has been experimenting with various business and revenue models, pioneering many areas of data-driven design and innovation management, and blurring the lines between work and leisure. With the rising interest in building Metaverses and immersive experience design, many firms look at open-world videogames as the default model. Despite their cultural and digital importance, game environments are rarely the subject of IS research. They still carry stigmas of not being serious business or generalized enough for scholarly consideration. The PDW aims to formulate the effect of games, their artifacts, environments, and business models on the larger IS scholarship and draw a way forward for greater engagement of IS scholarship within the video game industry