Best of ToG

Explainable AI for Cheating Detection and Churn Prediction in Online Games

Jianrong Tao^{1, 2}, Yu Xiong², Shiwei Zhao², Runze Wu², Xudong Shen², Tangjie Lyu², Changjie Fan², Zhipeng Hu^{1, 2}, Sha Zhao¹ and Gang Pan¹

¹College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

²Fuxi AI Lab, NetEase Inc.

Published on: IEEE Transactions on Games (Volume: 15, Issue: 2, June 2023)

Conference Awards

Best Paper Award

Bootstrap Your Own Teacher: Online Policy Distillation for Multi-Game Reinforcement Learning

Donal Byrne^1*, Marko Tot^2*, Paul Duckworth^1*, Clement Bonnet¹, Alexandre Laterre¹ and Thomas Barrett¹

¹InstaDeep

²Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

^*Equal contribution

Best Student Paper Award

How do Players Perceive Gender Discrimination? On the Differences of Harassment in Online Games

Ronja Fuchs¹, Jakob Droste² and Alexander Dockhorn¹

¹Institute for Information Processing, Leibniz University Hannover

²Software Engineering Group, Leibniz University Hannover

Winner of the CoG Song Contest 2025

Tone

Willy, Manu, Flo

Community Award

Simon Lucas

Open

Auxiliary Papers

May, 30

Open

Doctoral Consortium

May, 30

Workshop

1UP – Games for Health and Wellbeing

May, 30

The annual IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) is a premier venue for technical, scientific, and engineering work on video games, board games, and other types of games. Games offer a fantastic domain for computational creativity, game design, technology, education, social sciences and, undoubtedly, artificial and computational intelligence. IEEE CoG is a venue to discuss recent advances and explore future directions.

Important Deadlines (all Anytime on Earth (AoE)
Call for Auxiliary Papers: May 30, 2025 (Open)
Call for Full Papers: March 15, 2025

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Call for Tutorials: January 19, 2025

Call for Workshops: January 19, 2025

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