Using coevolution to understand and validate game balance in continuous games

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1563-1570

  Leigh, Ryan ^a   Schonfeld, Justin ^a   Louis, Sushil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Coevolution; Game balance; Games

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

CAPTURE THE FLAG; CO-EVOLUTION; CO-EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; CONTINUOUS STATE; GAME BALANCES; GAME STRATEGIES; GAMES; STRATEGY SPACE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 57349129032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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