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AIIDE
2006
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CrowdMixer: Multiple Agent Types in Situation-Based Crowd Simulations
This paper presents a scalable approach to crowd simulation that can generate complex and varied simulations by using multiple types of individuals in a crowd. Efficiency is attai...
Shannon Blyth, Howard J. Hamilton
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Game Balancing: An Evaluation of User Satisfaction
User satisfaction in computer games seems to be influenced by game balance, the level of challenge faced by the user. This work presents an evaluation, performed by human players,...
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Alex Sandro Gomes,...
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A Testbed for Evaluating AI Research Systems in Commercial Games
David W. Aha, Matthew Molineaux, Philip Moore
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Incorporating Advice into Neuroevolution of Adaptive Agents
Neuroevolution is a promising learning method in tasks with extremely large state and action spaces and hidden states. Recent advances allow neuroevolution to take place in real t...
Chern Han Yong, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkula...
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Self-Adapting and Multicultural Non-Player Characters in Artificial Worlds
Modeling the behavior of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) so that they can act properly in an artificial world is a difficult, yet essential task in the development of modern computer...
Samuel Marin
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Building Test Beds for AI with the Q3 Mod Base
We extend the open source Quake 3 Arena code base released by Id Software to include modification friendly code segments, art asset blueprints, external agent control and percepti...
G. Michael Youngblood, Billy Nolen, Michael Ross, ...
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting User Physiological Response for Interactive Environments: An Inductive Approach
Affective reasoning holds great potential for interactive digital entertainment, education, and training. Incorporating affective reasoning into the decision-making capabilities o...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Mixing Story and Simulation in Interactive Narrative
Simulation is a common feature in computer entertainment. However, in computer games simulation and story are often kept distinct by interleaving interactive play and cut scenes. ...
Mark O. Riedl, Andrew Stern, Don M. Dini
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Designing a Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive AI for Large-Scale Strategy Games
This paper investigates the challenges posed by the application of reinforcement learning to large-scale strategy games. In this context, we present steps and techniques which syn...
Charles A. G. Madeira, Vincent Corruble, Geber Ram...
AIIDE
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Plausible Environment Reconstruction Using Bayesian Networks
To save precious time and space, many games and simulations use static terrain and fixed (or random) reconstruction of areas that a player leaves and later revisits. This can resu...
Robert G. Price, Scott D. Goodwin