This is the current schedule for the AAAI 2000 Spring Symposium on AI
and Interactive Entertainment.  We're looking forward to seeing
everyone!

If you are a panelist, you are expected to bring NO MORE THAN 7
MINUTES worth of short presentation or comments.  You should consider
the topic of the panel and/or the topic of your paper when you are
choosing your comments.  Bring overheads as needed.  The panel format
will be comments from panelists followed by moderated discussion. 

A/V: There will be an overhead projector, a VCR, and a VGA connection
for laptops.  We strongly suggest that you bring overheads if you need
slides ; we found setting up electronic slides took up far too much
time for little added value.

Demos:  We will have a demo room this year that is separate from the
auditorium that last year's AICG attendees remember.  The demo session
will be vastly improved!  If you have a demo of your latest work,
CONTACT WOLFF (wolff@cs.nwu.edu) in advance.  You must bring your own
equipment; we can only provide power. 

Special note: Keep Monday night free for now; plans are afoot for a
combined dining outing!

Day 1
 Session 1: Introductions and Invited Speakers: AI in today's games
        Introductions by the program committee

        Programmers from Valve
	and an added guest speaker

 Session 2: AI Components
        A discussion of some current and future components used to control
        AI entities in games and how these components might be integrated.

        Moderator: Ian Davis
        Jan Allbeck - Parameterized action representation and
                natural language instructions for dynamic behavior
                modification of embodied agents
        Marc Cavazza - Natural language control and paradigms
                of interactivity
        Ian Davis - Path planning for Star Trek: Armada
        Siome Goldenstein - Dynamic autonomous agents: game
                applications
	Yusuf Pisan - Building NPCs

 Session 3: AI Engine Frameworks
        A number of frameworks for AI engines will be discussed with
        particular emphasis on the common ground between them.

        Moderator: Ken Forbus
        Marc Atkins - Some issues in AI Engine Design
        John Funge - Cognitive multi-character systems for interactive
                entertainment
        Ken Forbus - General deep thoughts in the area
        Mark Mortimer - Manageable grouping of artificial intelligence
        Michael van Lent - General deep thoughts in the area

 Session 4: Demo session

Day 2
 Session 5: Invited Speaker
        Will Wright of Maxis
                Discussion of the AI aspects of The Sims
        Ian Davis of Mad Doctor Software/Activision


 Session 6: Story Driven Characters
        A discussion of the applications of AI to interactive fiction with
        particular focus on how the story should influence the behavior of
        the AI controlled characters.

        Moderator: Andrew Stern
        Wolff Dobson - Basketball as theater
        Magy Seif el-Nasr - Beyond the fighting mentality
        Lars Liden - Integration of autonomous and scripted behavior
        Michael Mateas - Neo-Arstotelian theory of interactive drama
        Michael Young - Computational aspects of interactive narrative
        Andrew Stern - General deep thoughts in the area

 Session 7: Making Behavior Interesting
        A look at some novel approaches to making AI controlled entities in
        computer games behave in interesting and perhaps unexpected ways
        including models of emotion, internal reasoning and even Chaos.

        Moderator: Wolff Dobson
        Michael Freed - Towards more human like opponents
        Pitor Gmytrasiewicz - Modeling users emotions during
                interactive entertainment sessions
        John Laird - It knows what you're going to do: adding
                anticipation to a quakebot
        Gary Ushaw - Shortcuts to Kaos: complex behavior from simple
                dynamics
        Ian Wilson - The artificial emotion engine

 Session 8: Workshop
        Symposium attendees will be divided into groups and each group will
        design a new game or game genre that is made possible by improvements
        in one or more areas of AI.  Each group will report on their ideas
        at the end of the session.

        Moderator: John Laird

Day 3
 Session 9: TBA

 Session 10: Community
        How can we continue to build the AI and games research community
        and ensure mutual benefits.

        Moderator: Michael van Lent
        Bryan Stout - Report from GDC