Learning to be a bot: Reinforcement learning in shooter games

Proceedings of the 4th Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, AIIDE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 78-83

  Mcpartland, Michelle ^a   Gallagher, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 77957836598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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