Search-based procedural content generation: A taxonomy and survey

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 172-186

  Togelius, Julian ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^b   Browne, Cameron ^c  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; design automation; evolutionary computation; genetic algorithms

Indexed keywords

BOARD GAMES; DESIGN AUTOMATION; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; OPTIMISATIONS; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SEARCH-BASED;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; TAXONOMIES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 80052873266     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2011.2148116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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