Evolving neural network agents in the NERO video game

IEEE 2005 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 182-189

  Stanley, Kenneth O ^a   Bryant, Bobby D ^a   Miikkulainen, Risto ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMIZED TRAINING; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK; GAMEPLAY; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NEUROEVOLUTION OF AUGMENTING TOPOLOGIES; NEUROEVOLVING ROBOTIC OPERATIVES; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME; TRAINING APPLICATIONS; VIDEO GAME;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 74349083030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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