From: paolo petta Subject: CFP: ECAI-98 WS on AI/Alife and Entertainment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 20:21:51 +0100 Message-ID: <34918ECF.AEFE4006@ai.univie.ac.at> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ECAI-98 Workshop on AI/Alife and Entertainment August 24th, Brighton, UK One day workshop It is increasingly recognised that the entertainment industry is one of the major industries in which the power of computing plays a key role. This is particularly evident when one observes the intense pace of collaborations, mergers, and corporate purchases at the boundary between entertainment and computing. For these mergers between computing and entertainment to succeed in the long term, machines must become competent in entertainment industry tasks presently performed by humans. This is very much the domain of AI research and development. Thus, this workshop focuses on the applications of artificial intelligence and artificial life technologies to entertainment. The purpose of the workshop is that by broadly soliciting papers in the area, which has not been a major concern of the European AI community in the past, we expect to draw an overall picture of AI and Alife opportunities in the entertainment industry. Also, we expect that information will be exchanged to facilitate active research in the area. For ECAI-98, we would welcome papers which clearly demonstrate use (including both actual use and ideas and proposals) of AI and Alife technologies to all areas of entertainment. We encourage not only the presentation of applications but also the description of frameworks and authoring tools. Reports on efforts to scientifically model fundamental artistic elements of entertainment are especially welcome. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Digital media (movie, video, music, speech, etc.) production and management - Digital Studio - Computer graphics and animation - Simulated worlds, role playing games - Virtual actors - Video games - Network-based games - Virtual reality and Cyberspace - Autonomous systems and agents - Interactive media - Interactive fiction, drama and story-telling - Edutainment - Robot entertainment - Theme park applications Submissions: Please submit a detailed abstract (approx. 1500 words) or a full paper (limited to 5000 words) by 1st of April 1998. Submissions via e-mail are encouraged, in HTML, Postcript, or plain text format to Frank Nack (nack@darmstadt.gmd.de). If electronic submission is not possible (due to network access problems, video, etc...), please send a copy on floppy disc (video tapes in VHS or S-VHS) to Frank Nack (see address below) to arrive by 1st of April 1998. Papers will be reviewed by the programme committee, based on originality, adequacy of method, and significance of findings. Selection will seek to balance perspective and interests of participants. Extended versions of selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal. For more information please see: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/ECAI98/ Time table: Submissions Due: 01.04. 1998 Notification: 02.05. 1998 Camera-ready due: 31.05. 1998 Registration: WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT REGISTRATION FOR THE MAIN ECAI-98 CONFERENCE. Organising Committee: Frank Nack (contact person) Mobile Interactive Media GMD-IPSI tel +49 6151 869833 Dolivostr. 15 fax +49 6151 869818 64293 Darmstadt e-mail nack@darmstadt.gmd.de Germany Elisabeth Andr=E9, DFKI e-mail Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de Kevin Brooks, MIT e-mail brooks@media.mit.edu Paolo Petta, =D6FAI e-mail paolo@ai.univie.ac.at Arnd Steinmetz, GMD-IPSI e-mail arnd.steinmetz@darmstadt.gmd.de Programme Committee: Elisabeth Andr=E9, DFKI, Germany Norman I. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA Kim Binstead, University of Edinburgh, UK Paul Brna, University of Leeds, UK Kevin Brooks, MIT Media Lab, USA Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Sean Butler, Interactive Studios, UK Lars Erik Holmquist, Viktoria Institute, Sweden Philippe Joly, IRIT, France Hiroaki Kitano, Sony, Japan James C. Lester, North Carolina State University, USA Adam T. Lindsay, Riverland Research, Belgium Frank Nack, GMD-IPSI, Germany Alan Parkes, Lancaster University, UK Paolo Petta, =D6FAI, Austria R=E9mi Ronfard, INA, France Nikitas Sgouros, University of Piraeus, Greece Arnd Steinmetz, GMD-IPSI, Germany Ola Stockfeld, Gothenburg University, Sweden Peter Wavish, Philips Research Laboratories-Redhill, UK -- paolo petta = +43-1-5336112-12(Tel) Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence +43-1-5336112-77(Fax) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe = paolo@ai.univie.ac.at