Evolving stochastic controller networks for intelligent game agents

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1007-1014

  Bryant, Bobby D ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive team of agents; Agents; Games; Legion II; Multi agent systems; Neuroevolution; Randomness; Simulators; Stochastic behavior; Stochastic sharpening

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TEAM OF AGENTS; CONTROLLER NETWORKS; GAMES; GENUINE PROBLEMS; LEGION II; NEUROEVOLUTION; RANDOMNESS; STOCHASTIC SHARPENING;

GAME THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 34547311064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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