Organized by CAAI, CAAI Machine Games Committee and Chongqing Three Gorges University, the 2021 CCDC Special Symposium on Machine Games was successfully held via live webcast from 9:00 AM to 12:00 am on August 5, 2021. 

This special invitation conference is composed of three parts: opening ceremony, academic report and online exchange.

The academic report was chaired by Professor Wang Jiao, Deputy Director of CAAI Machine Games Committee. At the opening ceremony, Professor Wang Jiao introduced the participation in the CCDC machine games project submission and academic exchange (2020-2021) as well as the exchange of guests, and invited professor Zhang Xiaochuan, chairman of the CAAI Machine Games Committee, to speak.

Subsequently, six internationally renowned AI professors and 2021 CCDC partial paper authors carried out the academic report. Among them, Mr. Bachuan, chief data scientist of Competitive World (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd., made a sharing on “Competitive World Talent Strategy Introduction”; Zhang Junge, associate researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a presentation on “The Research Progress of Intelligent Game Decision-making”. The report by Professor Li Shuqin from Beijing Information Science and Technology University is entitled “Research on AI algorithms for Incomplete Information Card Games”. Yuan Dejun from Flame Chess AI Lab gave a presentation entitled “General Machine Games Engine with Full Stack Acceleration in Computer Architecture”; Liu Shang of Shenyang Aerospace University shared “Research and Implementation of Surakarta Computer Game Algorithm”; Students Zhao Hailu and Liu Liu, Chongqing University of Technology, exchanged papers on “A Mahjong Game Strategy Based on Empirical Knowledge”. Six experts and authors of the paper made the academic sharing and discussion in the field of machine game from different angles. The contents of the report are wonderful, participants launched a heated discussion around the new research direction and research focus of machine games.

The 2021 CCDC Machine Game Special Invitation Academic Conference is rich in content and innovative in form. It is held in a combination of online and offline modes, and is also broadcast live, making it possible for teachers and students who cannot attend the conference to be join the conference and make on-line academic exchange with participating experts. The participants all said that through this kind of “online + offline” special invitation academic activities, the participation scope and audience of academic exchanges have been greatly expanded, and computer game research and activities in China have achieved faster and better development, making greater contributions to the training of young students and artificial intelligence talents.