Game design through self-play experiments

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 265, Issue , 2005, Pages 421-428

  Macleod, Alasdair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computer games; game design; perudo; reinforcement learning; self play experiments

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL GAMES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER GAME; GAME DESIGN; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEW APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER VARIATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRECISE CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SELF-PLAY; SOCCER GAMES; TD-LEARNING; THOMPSON; TRAINING PROCESS;

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; NEURAL NETWORKS; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953495415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178477.1178572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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