Towards procedural strategy game generation: Evolving complementary unit types

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6624 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 93-102

  Mahlmann, Tobias ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE FITNESS FUNCTION; COMPLEMENTARY PROPERTY; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GAMEPLAY; INCLUDING RULE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEW STRATEGY; SUB-DOMAINS; STRATEGY GAMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79955847788     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20525-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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