AAIA’17 Data Mining Challenge is the fourth data mining competition organized within the framework of International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. This time, the task is to come up with an efficient prediction model which would help AI to play the game of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The competition is kindly sponsored by Silver Bullet Solutions and Polish Information Processing Society (PTI).

Author: Andrzej Janusz

This paper reviews different applications of machine learning techniques in a development of AI player for a collectible card video game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

In chess and go games all information needed for AI analysis is literally on the table. According to game experts winning in no-limit poker shows that AI is ready to win in cybersecurity, negotiations, military, auctions and even in containing infections.

Author: Tomasz Tajmajer

Artificial intelligence methods are often perceived as extremely complicated and understandable only by people that graduated computer science. The idea of an electronic device that, by itself,  learns how to behave still seems to be very futuristic. In fact, we have many “smart” devices around us, but many of them are not smarter than a motion-based light switch…