5. Events

NSO participates in organizing the IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games Conference, which will take place in Maastricht on August 14-17, 2018. For more information, have a look at the conference website.

NSO participates in organizing the Advances in Computer Games 2017, which will be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 3-5, 2017. For more information, have a look at the conference website.

NSO participates in organizing the IJCAI Computer Games Workshop 2017, which will be held in Melbourne, Australia, August 2017. For more information, have a look at the workshop website.

World Conference of the Game Theory Society in 2016 in Maastricht
A team of researchers from the departments of Economics and Quantitative Economics from the School of Business and Economics and from research group Networks and Strategic Optimization from the Department of Knowledge Engineering from the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences has succesfully organized GAMES 2016, the prestigious World Congress on Game Theory in Maastricht 2016. These world conferences are held once every 4 years. Earlier editions took place in Bilbao (2000), Marseille (2004), Evanston (2008) and Istanbul (2012).
Game Theory, which is centered around mathematical models of conflict and competition, plays an increasingly important role in many branches of science, like for example economics, biology, computer science, psychology, political science and law. This wide applicability will also show in the 2016 conference in Maastricht. The societal relevance of Game Theory is illustrated by awarding game theorists the Nobel Prize in Economics on several occasions, such as in 2012 to Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth.
The 2016 World Congress was held in parallel with EC’16, the 17-th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, upon initiative of the local organizing team. In total we had a total of close to 900 participants with over 700 presentations in just 5 days.
For more information on GAMES 2016 and on EC’16, please have a look at the conference website or contact the local chair: f.thuijsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

NSO participated in organizing the IJCAI Computer Games Workshop 2016, which was held in New York, July 2016. For more information, have a look at the workshop website.

NSO participated in organizing the IJCAI Computer Games Workshop 2015, which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2015. For more information, have a look at the workshop website.

NSO participated in organizing the ECAI Computer Games Workshop 2014, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 2014. For more information, have a look at the workshop website.

NSO participated in organizing the 16th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, which will be held July 9-12, 2014 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. For more information, please contact f.thuijsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl or have a look at the symposium website.

NSO participated in organizing a workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Utilizing genealogical phylogenetic networks in evolutionary biology: touching the data (7th July 2014 – 11th July 2014).

NSO organized the SIKS-DKE Symposium: Monte-Carlo Search is Everywhere, which took place at DKE on December 2, 2013. This symposium addressed recent developments on the topic of Monte-Carlo search techniques for different classes of games (one-, two- or multi-player games, sequential or simultaneous, stochastic or deterministic, and imperfect information games). For more information please  have a look at the symposium website.