Proceedings of the Fourth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Chris Darken and Michael Mateas
October 22–24, 2008, Stanford, California. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Full Papers
Hierarchical Petri Nets for Story Plots Featuring Virtual Humans
Daniel Balas, Cyril Brom, Adam Abonyi, Jakub Gemrot
Modeling Culturally and Emotionally Affected Behavior
Vadim Bulitko, Steven Solomon, Jonathan Gratch, Michael van Lent
Simulation-Based Story Generation with a Theory of Mind
Hsueh-Min Chang, Von-Wun Soo
Agent Learning using Action-Dependent Learning Rates in Computer Role-Playing Games
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Michael Bowling, Richard S. Sutton
Effects of Communication on the Evolution of Squad Behaviours
Darren Doherty, Colm O'Riordan
Dynamic Expansion of Behaviour Trees
Gonzalo Flórez-Puga, Marco Gómez-Martín, Belén Díaz-Agudo, Pedro A. González-Calero
The Rise of Potential Fields in Real Time Strategy Bots
Johan Hagelbäck, Stefan J. Johansson
Lightweight Procedural Animation with Believable Physical Interactions
Ian Horswill
A Cover-Based Approach to Multi-Agent Moving Target Pursuit
Alejandro Isaza, Jieshan Lu, Vadim Bulitko, Russell Greiner
Offline Planning with Hierarchical Task Networks in Video Games
John-Paul Kelly, Adi Botea, Sven Koenig
Learning and Playing in Wubble World
Wesley Kerr, Paul Cohen, Yu-Han Chang
Logical Agents for Language and Action
Martin Magnusson, Patrick Doherty
Learning to be a Bot: Reinforcement Learning in Shooter Games
Michelle McPartland, Marcus Gallagher
Recombinable Game Mechanics for Automated Design Support
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas
Modeling the Dynamics of Non-Player Characters' Social Relations in Video Games
Magalie Ochs, Nicolas Sabouret, Vincent Corruble
Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards
David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Alex Whittaker, Jean-Luc Lugrin
Intelligent Trading Agents for Massively Multi-player Game Economies
John Reeder, Gita Sukthankar, M. Georgiopoulos, G. Anagnostopoulos
Constructing Complex NPC Behavior via Multi-Objective Neuroevolution
Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen
Talking with NPCs: Towards Dynamic Generation of Discourse Structures
Christina R. Strong, Michael Mateas
TAP: An Effective Personality Representation for Inter-Agent Adaptation in Games
Chek Tien Tan, Ho-lun Cheng
Stochastic Plan Optimization in Real-Time Strategy Games
Andrew Trusty, Santi Ontañón, Ashwin Ram
Combining Model-Based Meta-Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning for Adapting Game-Playing Agents
Patrick Ulam, Joshua Jones, Ashok Goel
Explicit Knowledge Programming for Computer Games
Andreas Witzel, Jonathan Zvesper, Ethan Kennerly
Industry Papers
Implementation Walkthrough of a Homegrown “Abstract State Machine” Style System in a Commercial Sports Game
Brian Schwab
Otello: A Next-Generation Reputation System for Humans and NPCs
Michael Sellers
Navigating Detailed Worlds with a Complex, Physically Driven Locomotion: NPC Skateboarder AI in EA’s skate
Mark Wesley
Posters
Adaptive Spatial Reasoning for Turn-based Strategy Games
Maurice Bergsma, Pieter Spronck
Automatically Generating Summary Visualizations from Game Logs
Yun-Gyung Cheong, Arnav Jhala, Byung-Chull Bae, R. Michael Young
Automatically-generated Convex Region Decomposition for Real-time Spatial Agent Navigation in Virtual Worlds
D. Hunter Hale, G. Michael Youngblood, Priyesh N. Dixit
Cerberus: Applying Supervised and Reinforcement Learning Techniques to Capture the Flag Games
Ahmed S. Hefny, Ayat A. Hatem, Mahmoud M. Shalaby, Amir F. Atiya
Direction Maps for Cooperative Pathfinding
M. Renee Jansen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
Agent Architecture in Social Games — The Implementation of Subsumption Architecture in Diplomacy
Aleksander Krzywinski, Weiqin Chen, Arne Helgesen
A Framework for the Semi-Automatic Testing of Video Games
Alfredo Nantes, Ross Brown, Frederic Maire
Integrating Story-Centric and Character-Centric Processes for Authoring Interactive Drama
Mei Si, Stacy C. Marsella, Mark O. Riedl
An Intelligent IDE for Behavior Authoring in Real-Time Strategy Games
Suhas Virmani, Yatin Kanetkar, Manish Mehta, Santiago Ontañón, Ashwin Ram
Demos
Monte-Carlo Tree Search: A New Framework for Game AI
Guillaume Chaslot, Sander Bakkes, Istvan Szita, Pieter Spronck
A Demonstration of Agent Learning with Action-Dependent Learning Rates in Computer Role-Playing Games
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron
OpenNERO: A Game Platform for AI Research and Education
Igor V. Karpov, John Sheblak, Risto Miikkulainen
Integrating Drama Management into an Adventure Game
Anne Sullivan, Sherol Chen, Michael Mateas
IDtension — Highly Interactive Drama
Nicolas Szilas
PaSSAGE: A Demonstration of Player Modeling in Interactive Storytelling
David Thue, Vadim Bulitko, Marcia Spetch
Difficulty Scaling through Incongruity
Giel van Lankveld, Pieter Spronck, Matthias Rauterberg
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