A platform for evolving characters in competitive games

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1420-1426

  Fogel, David B ^a   Hays, Timothy J ^a   Johnson, Douglas R ^b  

^a NATURAL SELECTION INC   (United States)

^b Digenetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FLOW; NONPLAYER CHARACTERS; PLAY TESTING; STORE SHELVES;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 4344703418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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