Learning to play Pac-Man: An evolutionary, rule-based approach

2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003 - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2462-2469

  Gallagher, M ^a   Ryan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; DYNAMIC STRATEGIES; LEARNING TO PLAY; PAC-MAN; POPULATION-BASED INCREMENTAL LEARNING; REAL-TIME COMPUTER; RULE-BASED APPROACH;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84901386407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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