An experiment in automatic game design

2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-118

  Togelius, Julian ^a   Schmidhuber, Jürgen ^b  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GAME DESIGN; PROOF OF CONCEPT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349295737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2008.5035629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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