Member
Chair: Dr. Jialin Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
Vice Chair: Prof. Georgios Yannakais, University of Malta, Malta
Vice Chair: Prof. Simon M. Lucas, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK
Membership:
- Chengpeng Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Jiyuan Pei, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Tianye Shu, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Ziqi Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
Benchmark platforms
- General Video Game AI (GVGAI) framework is an OpenAI Gym environment for games written in the Video Game Description Language (VGDL), including the GVGAI framework:
- Ruben Rodriguez Torrado, Philip Bontrager, Julian Togelius, Jialin Liu and Diego Perez Liebana, ``Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games Conference (CIG 2018), Maastricht, 2018, pp. 1-8. [ pdf , code ]
- The Mario AI framework is a framework for using AI methods with a version of Super Mario Bros which was created by Ahmed Khalifa, based on the original Mario AI Framework by Sergey Karakovskiy, Noor Shaker, and Julian Togelius, which in turn was based on Infinite Mario Bros by Markus Persson [ code ]:
- Sergey Karakovskiy and Julian Togelius, ''The Mario AI Benchmark and Competitions ,'' IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (TCIAG), volume 4 issue 1, 55-67. [ pdf ]
Books, Journal Special Issues and Review Papers
- Jialin Liu, Sam Snodgrass, Ahmed Khalifa, Sebastian Risi, Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius, Deep learning for procedural content generation Neural Computing and Applications Volume 33, Pages 19–37 (2021) [pdf]
- Jialin Liu, Tom Schaul, Pieter Spronck and Julian Togelius, Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Revolutions in Computational Game AI (Dagstuhl Seminar 19511) Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 12. [pdf]
- Jacob Schrum, Anikó Ekárt, Cameron Browne and Jialin Liu, Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation for Games , IEEE Transactions on Games (2020-now)
- G. N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius, Springer, Artificial Intelligence and Games. Springer , 2018.
- Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Michael Cook and Simon Colton, Special Issue on AI-based and AI-assisted Game Design , IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (2016-2017)
- Jialin Liu, Tom Schaul, Pieter Spronck and Julian Togelius, Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Revolutions in Computational Game AI (Dagstuhl Seminar 19511) Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 12. [pdf]
- N. Shaker, G. Smith and G. N. Yannakakis “Evaluating Content Generators,” in Togelius et al., (Eds.), Procedural Content Generation in Games. A textbook and an overview of current research. 2015. [pdf]
- Julian Togelius, G. N. Yannakakis, Kenneth O. Stanley et al, Search-Based Procedural Content Generation: A Taxonomy and Survey. Springer IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Volume 3, Issue 3. [pdf]
Organized Symposium, Workshops, and Special Sessions
- The 12th Workshop on Procedural Content Generation at FDG2021.
- "Evolutionary Computation for Games : Learning, Planning, and Designing" Tutorial by Julian Togelius and Jialin Liu at the 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.
- NII Shonan Meeting (Dagstuhl Seminars in Japan), Artificial General Intelligence in Games: Where Play Meets Design and User Experience, 2019.
Contact
Dr. Jialin Liu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
College of Engineering, South Tower, Room 514
1088 Xueyuan Ave, Nanshan District
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 518055
E-mail: liujl@sustech.edu.cn