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Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Michael Buro, Quinn Kybartas, and Santiago Ontañón

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held October 11-15, 2021. There were three workshops in the program: Experimental AI in Games, Programming Languages in Entertainment, and Strategy Games. This report contains summaries of some, but not all symposia. 

Report on the First and Second ICAPS Workshops on Hierarchical Planning

By Pascal Bercher, Daniel Holler, Gregor Behnke, Susanne Biundo, Vikas Shivashankar, Ron Alford

Hierarchical planning has attracted renewed interest in the last couple of years. As a consequence, the time was right to establish a workshop devoted entirely to hierarchical planning – an insight shared by many supporters. In this paper we report on the first ICAPS workshop on Hierarchical Planning held in Delft, The Netherlands, in 2018 as well as on the second workshop held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2019.