<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">-----------</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Please redistribute and consider participation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Apologies for multiple postings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">----------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for participation - The Geometry Friends Collaborative Game AI Competition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission deadline: August 16</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://geometryfriends.gaips.inesc-id.pt/" style="color:blue">https://geometryfriends.gaips.inesc-id.pt/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Geometry Friends (GF) is a 2-player collaborative puzzle platformer game, where 2 players control 2 characters (a circle and a rectangle), with distinct characteristics, that try to collect some diamonds in a set of levels as fast as possible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The game promotes collaboration between the two players and presents challenging coordinated control of the characters in a simulated physics environment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">You can see two agents in action here:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">It raises interesting problems for AI agents. For example, to successfully solve a GF level the players need to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">1) Deal with collaboration at different layers: from motion control (e.g., achieving perfect timing) to level resolution (e.g., devising shared plans);</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">2) Dealing with limited actuation situated in a simulated physics environment (with gravity and friction).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">3) Solve platform (skill) based puzzles, which involves discovering the proper order to collect the diamonds and identifying the points where collaboration is needed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">4) Do all the above in real-time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The competition is held at the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI</span>’2023) and<span lang="EN-GB"> IEEE Conference on Games (CoG’2023):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://ijcai-23.org/" style="color:blue">https://ijcai-23.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://ieee-cog.org/" style="color:blue">http://ieee-cog.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Give it a Try!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The organisation committee,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Inês Lobo and Inês Batina</span></p><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b>Rui Prada</b></span></font></div><div><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b>INESC-ID </b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px">|</b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b> Instituto</b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px"> Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa</b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b><br></b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px"><i>Senior Researcher</i> |<i> Associate Professor</i></b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="line-height:normal"><b style="font-size:12px"><br></b><font size="1">Edifício IST-Taguspark - Av. Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, 2744-016, Porto Salvo, Portugal</font></span></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="line-height:normal">+351 21 423 3292 | <a href="mailto:rui.prada@tecnico.ulisboa.pt" target="_blank">rui.prada@tecnico.ulisboa.pt</a> | <a href="mailto:rui.prada@gaips.inesc-id.pt" target="_blank">rui.prada@gaips.inesc-id.pt</a> | Skype: rui.prada</span></font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/rprada" target="_blank">GAIPS </a>| <a href="http://labjogos.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/" target="_blank">LabJogos </a>| <a href="http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/geometryfriends/" target="_blank">Geometry Friends Game AI</a> | <a href="https://id-gaming-project.eu/" target="_blank">ID Gaming</a> | <a href="https://iv4xr-project.eu/" target="_blank">iv4XR</a> | <a href="http://www.spcvideojogos.org/" target="_blank">SPCV</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b>Rui Prada</b></span></font></div><div><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b>INESC-ID </b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px">|</b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b> Instituto</b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px"> Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa</b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><b><br></b></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:12px"><i>Senior Researcher</i> |<i> Associate Professor</i></b><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="line-height:normal"><b style="font-size:12px"><br></b><font size="1">Edifício IST-Taguspark - Av. Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, 2744-016, Porto Salvo, Portugal</font></span></font></div><div><font face="arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" size="1"><span style="line-height:normal">+351 21 423 3292 | <a href="mailto:rui.prada@tecnico.ulisboa.pt" target="_blank">rui.prada@tecnico.ulisboa.pt</a> | <a href="mailto:rui.prada@gaips.inesc-id.pt" target="_blank">rui.prada@gaips.inesc-id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