A major challenge in the field of AI is combining symbolic and statistical techniques. My dissertation work aims to bridge this gap in the domain of real-time strategy games.
We developed knowledge-rich agents to play real-time strategy games by interfacing the ORTS game engine to the Soar cognitive architecture. The middleware we developed supports gr...
Do computer simulation games display emergent behavior? Are they models of complex systems or ‘life’ systems? This paper aims to explore and investigate how games studies can ...
Real-Time Strategy games present an interesting problem domain for Artificial Intelligence research. We review current approaches to developing AI systems for such games, noting th...