Excuse me, I need better AI! Employing collaborative diffusion to make game AI child's play

Proceedings - Sandbox Symposium 2006: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, Sandbox '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 169-178

  Repenning, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative agents; diffusion; distributed artificial intelligence; end user programming; game AI; incremental AI; multi agent architecture; object oriented programming; psychology of programming

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER GAME; DEBUGGING TOOLS; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; END USER PROGRAMMING; END USERS; GAINING MOMENTUM; MIDDLE SCHOOL; MOVING CHARACTER; MULTI-AGENT; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; SIMPLE GAMES; SOCCER GAMES; UNIVERSITY LEVELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77954020059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183316.1183341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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