The 18th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-22) is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelligent systems in entertainment. AIIDE-22 provides a meeting place for AI researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in entertainment-focused AI. AIIDE-22 will feature invited speakers, paper sessions, workshops, tutorials, playable experiences, artifact evaluation, panels, posters, a doctoral consortium, AI competitions, and a reception. AIIDE-22 is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

This year’s Software Track expands what was previously the Demonstrations and Playable Experience Track. The Software Track invites full and short papers on games, playable experience, software libraries, data sets, or other tools valuable to the AIIDE community. We are also happy to announce that, starting this year, AIIDE will archive software artifacts from the Software Track and the Artifact Evaluation.