Ms Pac-Man versus Ghost Team CEC 2011 competition

—Games provide an ideal test bed for computational intelligence and significant progress has been made in recent years, most notably in games such as GO, where the level of play is now competitive with expert human play on smaller boards. Recently, a significantly more complex class of games has received increasing attention: real-time video games. These games pose many new challenges, including strict time constraints, simultaneous moves and open-endedness. Unlike in traditional board games, computational play is generally unable to compete with human players. One driving force in improving the overall performance of artificial intelligence players are game competitions where practitioners may evaluate and compare their methods against those submitted by others and possibly human players as well. In this paper we introduce a new competition based on the popular arcade video game MS PAC-MAN: MS PAC-MAN VERSUS GHOST TEAM. The competition, to be held at the Congress on Evolutionary ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CEC
• Authors: Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
• Keywords: Arcade Video Game, Artificial Intelligence, CEC 2011, Ms Pac Man, Traditional Board Games