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AIIDE
2009
13 years 2 months ago
IMPLANT: An Integrated MDP and POMDP Learning AgeNT for Adaptive Games
This paper proposes an Integrated MDP and POMDP Learning AgeNT (IMPLANT) architecture for adaptation in modern games. The modern game world basically involves a human player actin...
Chek Tien Tan, Ho-Lun Cheng
AIIDE
2009
13 years 2 months ago
kNN LRTA*: Simple Subgoaling for Real-Time Search
Vadim Bulitko, Yngvi Björnsson
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Constructing Game Agents from Video of Human Behavior
Developing computer game agents is often a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Detailed domain knowledge and decision-making procedures must be encoded into the agent to achieve re...
Nan Li, David J. Stracuzzi, Gary Cleveland, Tolga ...
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Generating Story Analogues
In this paper, we describe a computational system that generates story analogues based on previous stories. Unlike many previous works on story generation that attempt to produce ...
Mark Riedl, Carlos Leon
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Investigating the Interplay between Camera Viewpoints, Game Information, and Challenge
Players perceive information about game environments through a virtual camera. While a significant discussion in the industry and in academic research circles has centered around ...
Arnav Jhala, Martin Schwartz, Hector Perez Martine...
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Bowyer: A Planning Tool for Bridging the Gap between Declarative and Procedural Domains
Traditionally, there have been two large obstacles faced in attempting to apply AI techniques to games and other virtual environments. The first obstacle is the gap between the la...
Steven P. Cash, R. Michael Young
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Offensive Performance Through Opponent Modeling
Although in theory opponent modeling can be useful in any adversarial domain, in practice it is both difficult to do accurately and to use effectively to improve game play. In thi...
Kennard Laviers, Gita Sukthankar, David W. Aha, Ma...
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Case-Based Reasoning for Build Order in Real-Time Strategy Games
We present a case-based reasoning technique for selecting build orders in a real-time strategy game. The case retrieval process generalizes features of the game state and selects ...
Ben George Weber, Michael Mateas
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Using Semantics to Improve the Design of Game Worlds
Design of game worlds is becoming more and more laborintensive because of the increasing demand and complexity of content. This is being partially addressed by developing semi-aut...
Tim Tutenel, Ruben Michaël Smelik, Rafael Bid...
AIIDE
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Demonstrating Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In most modern video games, content (e.g. models, levels, weapons, etc.) shipped with the game is static and unchanging, or at best, randomized within a narrow set of parameters. ...
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, Kenneth O. Stanle...