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...
Auction mechanism design is a subfield of game theory dedicated to manipulating the rules of an auction so as to achieve specific goals. The complexity of the dynamics of auctions...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sk...
In most modern video games, character behavior is scripted; no matter how many times the player exploits a weakness, that weakness is never repaired. Yet if game characters could ...
Kenneth O. Stanley, Igor Karpov, Risto Miikkulaine...
Dynamic changes in complex, real-time environments, such as modern video games, can violate an agent's expectations. We describe a system that responds competently to such vi...
We present a domain independent off-line adaptation technique called Stochastic Plan Optimization for finding and improving plans in real-time strategy games. Our method is based ...