دانلود کتاب پیشرفت در بازی های رایانه ای – هفدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی، ACG 2021

This book collects the papers presented at the 17th Advances in Computer Games conference (ACG 2021) which took place during November 23–25, 2021. The conference was held online in 2021 for the first time in its 47 year history due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions. This was a truly international effort as the conference was primarily hosted fromMaastricht University, the Netherlands, through a Zoom stream provided by the University of Alberta, Canada, with assistance from IBM Research – Tokyo, Japan. The Advances in Computer Games conference series is a major international forum for researchers and developers interested in all aspects of artificial intelligence and computer game playing. Earlier conferences took place in London (1975), Edinburgh (1978), London (1981, 1984), Noordwijkerhout (1987), London (1990), Maastricht (1993, 1996), Paderborn (1999), Graz (2003), Taipei (2005), Pamplona (2009), Tilburg (2011), Leiden (2015, 2017) and Macao (2019). For the past 20 years, the conference has been held every second year, alternating with the Computer and Games conference. A total of 34 papers were submitted to this conference. One was later withdrawn and the remaining 33 papers were each reviewed by three reviewers. A total of 22 papers were accepted for presentation. The online nature of this year’s conference offered some benefits in that conference registration could be made free for the first time, resulting in a record participation for this event with 399 registered participants. It also provided logistical challenges in devising a schedule that worked for as many attendees as possible over a wide range of time zones. The themes for this year’s ACG conference were specifically widened to include video game research in addition to the usual traditional/mathematical games research. The goalwas to broaden the conference focus to encourage newresearchers to participate in International Computer GamesAssociation (ICGA) events. The four papers presented in Session 5: Player Modelling represent the results of this initiative.