Computational Mafia

[Claus]

If anyone is interested, I am helping organize an online contest of computational Mafia. This will be the first English edition of a Japanese competition that has been running for 4 years at the Japanese version of GDC.

This competition uses a fixed communication protocol (No NLP needed), and each agent is allowed 10 messages using the protocol before a voting round is enforced. The supported programming languages are Java, Python and C#.

This competition will have the following game rules: Night start without mafia kill on 0th night. Two game sizes: 15P: 8 vanilla, 1 cop, 1 lynch-role revealer, 1 doc, 3 goons, 1 GF and 5P: 2 vanilla, 1 cop, 1 goon, 1 GF.

Agents will play sets of 100 games against random opponents in the competition, and earn 1 point for their team's victory. Best average score wins. Deadline for agent submission is May 20th.

If anyone is interested in participating, let me know!

[Claus]

Can you send me the details on Discord - I'm Ellibereth#1113.
Thanks.

Hey people, I am sorry for the delay, work happened. I don't really access MS Discord, but if you sent me a PM or an e-mail I would be happy to send more information.

Right now, I have the following sites to share:
http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~katfuji/ANAC2019/ -- Competition Website for this year
http://aiwolf.org/en/ -- AIWolf project website (lots of information in Japanese, but if you dig around you should find quite some information in English too)
https://github.com/caranha/AIWolfCompo -- a github repository with some documentations and sample code that I am putting together for contestants (WIP).
https://github.com/ehauckdo/AIWoof -- One of my students is making AIWolf bots in python, might be good for some examples.

Again, please do not hesitate in asking me questions.

If anyone is interested in participating, let me know!

Can i take interest as a spectator?

Sure! The deadline for submissions will be on May, so there is some time before we actually start making the AIs play against each other, but if there is interest, I could put some game reports and logs here.

(That said, the quality of the robots is not stellar high yet Baby steps!)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Hi guys. The above spreadsheet is unfinished and will need to be cleaned a lot once done, but it will include the post number of every phase transition in all the games covered in Bob's data set, plus any newly completed games in the relevant subforums since. This kind of data should permit or facilitate a broad array of computational efforts tied to mafia and MS. I'll let you know when it's fully "done", but I'm too excited not to share it now. More later.

This is fantastic! If I were a little better at NLP I would love to do some analysis in Bob's data. (If anyone wants to apply for graduate school or an exchange period in Japan to work on this let me know )

[Claus]

Hey Everyone,

The AIWolf Research group will host a competition of Mafia/Werewolf playing bots using Natural Language in October this year.

The idea of this competition is to create AI-mafia bots that can be fun to play with/play against. We held this competition in the past
4 years in Japanese, and this year it is the first time we are holding the competition in English. So we're looking for some people who
could help us judge the submitted bots.

So would anyone be interested in helping us? The task would be to read some 5-player games (and maybe a few 15-player games,
depending on the number of participants), and give your subjective opinion on the different bots (did it play well, did it look human-like,
did it look fun, etc). The setup is relatively simple: Cop, Doctor, Godfather, etc.

No knowledge of AI is necessary. This would take place in the later half of September. Last year we had about 10 submissions.

I hope this picks your interest! Feel free to PM me for details!

[Claus]

That's cool. There will be a workshop in Tokyo this month on comp linguistics with a session on AI Werewolf. Only four papers though (and not really great ones TBF).