Game Programming Workshop

Outline

Important Information

Because of the influence of covid-19, The 25th Game Programming Workshop 2020 is changed to online style conference. Details of the online conference will be posted as soon as they are decided. (Added on 2020/10/09: We are considering shortening the three-day schedule to two days.)

News

The 25th Game Programming Workshop (GPW-20)

GPW-20 Aim and Scope

Research on game programming started almost immediately after the advent of computers, and numerous technological advances of search algorithms, planning, machine learning, and collaborative problem solving have been made with the aim of creating strong game-playing programs. These research have become active in Japan, too, because Japanese have been playing games like shogi (Japanese chess) and Go, which Japanese boasts to the world.

It is remarkable to see recent advances in computer shogi and Go. In shogi, the research progress in search methods and evaluation function learning have made program playing level superior to that of professional players. In Go, Monte-Carlo-based approaches and machine learning techniques have led to a drastic improvement in playing strength.

Since then, our research aims have been more diversified. In addition to creating strong game-playing programs, our research aims include acquisition of human-like behaviors, and development of programs able to amuse people or to teach game-play tactics to human players. Moreover, our research field has become more and more active and started to deal with various kind of games, e.g., puzzles, board games, imperfect information games, fighting games, werewolf game, etc.

This workshop has been held almost every year since 1994, gathered domestic and foreign authors and participants together, and provided opportunities to share lively discussions with many researchers.

This year, we solicit original papers offering novel contributions on topics including (but not limited to):

Notes for participants from abroad: Typically, more than 90% of the presentations during the workshop will be given in Japanese. We do accept and welcome papers and presentations in English; however, some level of familiarity with Japanese language will be required to fully appreciate this workshop.

Schedule

Awards

Outstanding papers and poster presentations will be eligible for the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. Papers submitted by students will also be eligible for the Research Encouragement Award.

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Committee members

Program Committee Members
  • Hiroyuki Iida (JAIST)
  • Harukazu Igarashi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
  • Kokolo Ikeda (JAIST)
  • Takeshi Ito (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Seiya Okubo (University of Shizuoka)
  • Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba)
  • Tomoyuki Kaneko (University of Tokyo)
  • Kentaro Kayama (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
  • Akihiro Kishimoto (IBM Research)
  • Yoshiyuki Kotani (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
  • Makoto Sakuta (Fukuoka Institute of Technology)
  • Naoyuki Sato (National Institute of Technology, Sasebo College)
  • Masato Shinoda (Nara Women's University)
  • Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda University)
  • Yasuhiro Tajima (Okayama Prefectural University)
  • Tetsuro Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
  • Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo)
  • Teigo Nakamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  • Junji Nishino (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Tsuyoshi Hashimoto (National Institute of Technology, Matsue College)
  • Kunihito Hoki (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology)
  • Makoto Miwa (Toyota Technological Institute)
  • Atsushi Yoshikawa (Edulab, Inc.)
  • Kazuki Yoshizoe (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
  • Daisaku Yokoyama (Meiji University)
  • Reijer Grimbergen (Tokyo University of Technology)
  • Ruck Thawonmas (Ritsumeikan University)
Program Committee Chairs
  • Shogo Takeuchi (Kochi University of Technology)
  • Nobusuke Sasaki (Prefectural University of Hiroshima)
Executive Committee Members Executive Committee Chair
  • Takeshi Ito (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Hitoshi Matsubara (University of Tokyo/Future University Hakodate)

General inquiries about the workshop

Prof. Hitoshi Matsubara
School of Systems Information Science, Future University-Hakodate,
116-2 Kamedanakano-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8655, Japan
tel: +81-138-34-6125, fax: +81-138-34-6105, e-mail: gpw2020@fun.ac.jp