[Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested.] ***** * * Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee: * CALL FOR EXPERTS * * An Initiative of the International Game Developers Association * ***** Standards - a word that is not often heard in the artificial intelligence community! In a field that develops as fast as AI, standards may not have a very long life span, but wouldn''t it be nice to have some anyway? For example, for an interface between a computer game and artificial intelligence procedures? Programmers could reuse their code more easily and interface AI tools from third-party developers. This would mean higher reliability, higher quality and lower development costs! Also, academic AI research could increase its impact, learning about and focusing on specific computer game requirements. A roundtable was set up at the GDC 2002 conference to explore the potentials of such an endeavor and had a very positive resonance. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has now started to form an organizational framework for such a standards initiative - the AI Standards Committee. Working groups will be set up to work on specific topics like interfaces for "pathfinding", "steering", "influence mapping", "decision trees", "finite state machines", "rule-based systems", "goal- oriented action planning", "resource handling", and "world interfacing". These working groups will be composed of game AI programming experts, AI tool producers and academic AI researchers. If you like to suggest someone (including yourself), please send me a quick email on why they would like to become involved, and in which working groups they would be interested in. As the work in many of the areas is very interdependent (in particular, with world interfacing), suggestions for persons covering two working groups are especially welcome. Things are moving fast, and those that are interested should contact me as soon as possible: Alexander Nareyek Get involved and push game AI development to the next level! Best, Alexander Nareyek (AI Standards Committee Chair) LINKS: International Game Developers Association: http://www.igda.org/ Report on the GDC 2002 roundtable: http://www.ai-center.com/extern/gameaisig/gdc-2002-roundtable.html -- Alexander Nareyek alex@ai-center.com http://www.ai-center.com/home/alex/