Flexible and purposeful NPC behaviors using real-time genetic control

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 785-792

  Hussain, Talib S ^a,b   Vidaver, Gordon ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX GAME WINNING STRATEGIES; GAME OBJECTIVES; INTEGRATION EFFORTS; NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPC);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547329377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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