Keeping adaptive game AI interesting

Proceedings of CGAMES 2008 - 13th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 70-74

  Szita, István ^c   Ponsen, Marc ^a   Spronck, Pieter ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Dynamic scripting; Game AI; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; REINFORCEMENT;

ADAPTIVE GAME AI; ADAPTIVITY; CROSS ENTROPY; GAME AI; INTERESTINGNESS MEASURES; OPTIMISATION METHOD;

ANIMATION;

EID: 82855165783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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