Game Research Lab - Universiteit Leiden

2023

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Believable Minecraft Settlements by Means of Decentralised Iterative Planning 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333146

Arthur van der Staaij, Jelmer Prins, Vincent L Prins, Julian Poelsma, Thera Smit, Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Mike Preuss

2023

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Chatter Generation through Language Models 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333244

Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Giulio Barbero, Mike Preuss

2023

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High-accuracy model-based reinforcement learning, a survey. Artificial Intelligence Review; DOI: 10.1007/s10462-022-10335-w

Aske Plaat, Walter Kosters, Mike Preuss

2023

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Analysis of Hyper-Parameters for AlphaZero-Like Deep Reinforcement Learning. International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making; DOI: 10.1142/S0219622022500547

Hui Wang, Michael Emmerich, Aske Plaat, Mike Preuss

2023

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Continuous episodic control 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333131

Zhao Yang, Thomas Moerland, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2023

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Two-Memory Reinforcement Learning 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333174

Zhao Yang, Thomas Moerland, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2023

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StoryWorld: Procedural Quest Generation Rooted in Variety & Believability FDG '23: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games; DOI: 10.1145/3582437.3587181

Vincent Prins, Jelmer Prins, Mike Preuss, Marcello Gómez-Maureira

2023

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QuestVille: Procedural Quest Generation Using NLP Models FDG '23: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games; DOI: 10.1145/3582437.3587188

Suzan Al-Nassar, Anthonie Schaap, Michael van der Zwart, Mike Preuss, Marcello Gómez-Maureira

2023

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Designing for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools FDG '23: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games; DOI: 10.1145/3582437.3587192

Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss

2023

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Memory gym: Partially observable challenges to memory-based agents ICLR 20222: The eleventh international conference on learning representations; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.17207

Marco Pleines, Matthias Pallasch, Frank Zimmer, Mike Preuss

2022

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Towards verifiable Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG51982.2022.9893715

Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2022

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Transferring While Playing the RL Agent BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2022: Joint International Scientific Conferences on AI and Machine Learning;

Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Hélene Plisnier

2022

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First Go, then Post-Explore: the Benefits of Post-Exploration in Intrinsic Motivation arXiv preprint; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.03251

Zhao Yang, Thomas Moerland, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2021

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A New Challenge: Approaching Tetris Link with AI 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619044

Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2021

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Procedural Content Generation: Better Benchmarks for Transfer Reinforcement Learning 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG); DOI: 10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619000

Matthias Müller-Brockhausen, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2020

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Warm-Start AlphaZero Self-play Search Enhancements. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XVI - 16th International Conference, PPSN 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 5-9, 2020, Proceedings, Part II; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58115-2_37

Hui Wang, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2020

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On the Potential of Rocket League for Driving Team AI Development. 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2020, Canberra, Australia, December 1-4, 2020; DOI: 10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308248

Yannick Verhoeven, Mike Preuss

2020

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Live Action Role-Playing Games (LARP). IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2020, Osaka, Japan, August 24-27, 2020; DOI: 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231724

Christoph Salge, Emily Short, Mike Preuss, Spyridon Samothrakis, Pieter Spronck

2020

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Special Issue on AI in Games. Künstliche Intell.; DOI: 10.1007/s13218-020-00645-y

Sebastian Risi, Mike Preuss

2020

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Behind DeepMind's AlphaStar AI that Reached Grandmaster Level in StarCraft II. Künstliche Intell.; DOI: 10.1007/s13218-020-00642-1

Sebastian Risi, Mike Preuss

2020

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From Chess and Atari to StarCraft and Beyond: How Game AI is Driving the World of AI. Künstliche Intell.; DOI: 10.1007/s13218-020-00647-w

Sebastian Risi, Mike Preuss

2020

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A Games Industry Perspective on Recent Game AI Developments. Künstliche Intell.; DOI: 10.1007/s13218-020-00643-0

Mike Preuss, Sebastian Risi

2020

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Obstacle Tower Without Human Demonstrations: How Far a Deep Feed-Forward Network Goes with Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2020, Osaka, Japan, August 24-27, 2020; DOI: 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231802

Marco Pleines, Jenia Jitsev, Mike Preuss, Frank Zimmer

2020

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Towards a Taxonomy of AI in Hybrid Board Games. FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Bugibba, Malta, September 15-18, 2020; DOI: 10.1145/3402942.3409607

Marcello A. Gómez Maureira, Giulio Barbero, Maria Freese, Mike Preuss

2020

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FakeYou! - A Gamified Approach for Building and Evaluating Resilience Against Fake News. Disinformation in Open Online Media - Second Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 26-27, 2020, Proceedings; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61841-4_15

Lena Clever, Dennis Assenmacher, Kilian Müller, Moritz Vinzent Seiler, Dennis M. Riehle, Mike Preuss, Christian Grimme

2020

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Computational Thinking through Design Patterns in Video Games. FDG '20: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Bugibba, Malta, September 15-18, 2020; DOI: 10.1145/3402942.3409622

Giulio Barbero, Marcello A. Gómez-Maureira, Felienne F. J. Hermans

2019

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Alternative Loss Functions in AlphaZero-like Self-play. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2019, Xiamen, China, December 6-9, 2019; DOI: 10.1109/SSCI44817.2019.9002814

Hui Wang, Michael Emmerich, Mike Preuss, Aske Plaat

2019

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An Experiment on Game Facet Combination. IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019, London, United Kingdom, August 20-23, 2019; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848073

Raphael Patrick Prager, Laura Troost, Simeon Brüggenjürgen, David Melhart, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Mike Preuss

2019

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RTS AI Problems and Techniques. Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_17-1

Santiago Ontañón, Gabriel Synnaeve, Alberto Uriarte, Florian Richoux, David Churchill, Mike Preuss

2019

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Orchestrating Game Generation. IEEE Trans. Games; DOI: 10.1109/TG.2018.2870876

Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Mark J. Nelson, Mike Preuss, Rafael Bidarra

2019

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StarCraft Bots and Competitions. Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_18-1

David Churchill, Mike Preuss, Florian Richoux, Gabriel Synnaeve, Alberto Uriarte, Santiago Ontañón, Michal Certický

2018

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A Social Science-based Approach to Explanations for (Game) AI. 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2018, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 14-17, 2018; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2018.8490361

Vanessa Volz, Kevin Majchrzak, Mike Preuss

2018

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Towards Embodied StarCraft II Winner Prediction. Computer Games - 7th Workshop, CGW 2018, Held in Conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24337-1_1

Vanessa Volz, Mike Preuss, Mathias Kirk Bonde

2018

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Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI. Nat.; DOI: 10.1038/nature25978

Marwin H. S. Segler, Mike Preuss, Mark P. Waller

2018

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Integrated Balancing of an RTS Game: Case Study and Toolbox Refinement. 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2018, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 14-17, 2018; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2018.8490426

Mike Preuss, Thomas Pfeiffer, Vanessa Volz, Nicolas Pflanzl

2017

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Multi-objective Adaptation of a Parameterized GVGAI Agent Towards Several Games. Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization - 9th International Conference, EMO 2017, Münster, Germany, March 19-22, 2017, Proceedings; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54157-0_25

Ahmed Khalifa, Mike Preuss, Julian Togelius

2016

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MCTS/EA hybrid GVGAI players and game difficulty estimation. IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2016, Santorini, Greece, September 20-23, 2016; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2016.7860384

Hendrik Horn, Vanessa Volz, Diego Perez Liebana, Mike Preuss

2016

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Guest Editorial Real-Time Strategy Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games; DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2016.2601116

Michael Buro, Santiago Ontañón, Mike Preuss

2016

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An integrated process for game balancing. IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2016, Santorini, Greece, September 20-23, 2016; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2016.7860425

Marlene Beyer, Aleksandr Agureikin, Alexander Anokhin, Christoph Laenger, Felix Nolte, Jonas Winterberg, Marcel Renka, Martin Rieger, Nicolas Pflanzl, Mike Preuss, Vanessa Volz

2015

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Player-adaptive Spelunky level generation. 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2015, Tainan, Taiwan, August 31 - September 2, 2015; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2015.7317948

David Stammer, Tobias Günther, Mike Preuss

2015

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How costly is a good compromise: Multi-objective TORCS controller parameter optimization. 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2015, Tainan, Taiwan, August 31 - September 2, 2015; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2015.7317933

Jan Quadflieg, Günter Rudolph, Mike Preuss

2015

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Conference Report on IEEE CIG 2014 [Conference Reports]. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag.; DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2014.2369880

Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph

2015

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Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Integration (Dagstuhl Seminar 15051). Dagstuhl Reports; DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.5.1.207

Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius

2014

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Driving as a human: a track learning based adaptable architecture for a car racing controller. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach.; DOI: 10.1007/s10710-014-9227-z

Jan Quadflieg, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph

2014

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Searching for good and diverse game levels. 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2014, Dortmund, Germany, August 26-29, 2014; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2014.6932908

Mike Preuss, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius

2014

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Automatic Camera Control: A Dynamic Multi-Objective Perspective. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 17th European Conference, EvoApplications 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45523-4_30

Paolo Burelli, Mike Preuss

2013

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Procedural Content Generation: Goals, Challenges and Actionable Steps. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games; DOI: 10.4230/DFU.Vol6.12191.61

Julian Togelius, Alex J. Champandard, Pier Luca Lanzi, Michael Mateas, Ana Paiva, Mike Preuss, Kenneth O. Stanley

2013

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Controllable procedural map generation via multiobjective evolution. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach.; DOI: 10.1007/s10710-012-9174-5

Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Simon Wessing, Johan Hagelbäck, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Corrado Grappiolo

2013

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Reactive strategy choice in StarCraft by means of Fuzzy Control. 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 11-13, 2013; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2013.6633627

Mike Preuss, Daniel Kozakowski, Johan Hagelbäck, Heike Trautmann

2013

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A Survey of Real-Time Strategy Game AI Research and Competition in StarCraft. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games; DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2013.2286295

Santiago Ontañón, Gabriel Synnaeve, Alberto Uriarte, Florian Richoux, David Churchill, Mike Preuss

2013

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Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games ISBN: 978-3-939897-62-0

Editor(s): Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius

2013

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Computational intelligence and games. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '13, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-10, 2013, Companion Material Proceedings; DOI: 10.1145/2464576.2480815

Daniele Loiacono, Mike Preuss

2013

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Multi-objective assessment of pre-optimized build orders exemplified for StarCraft 2. 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 11-13, 2013; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2013.6633626

Matthias Kuchem, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph

2012

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Diversified Virtual Camera Composition. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012, Proceedings; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_27

Mike Preuss, Paolo Burelli, Georgios N. Yannakakis

2012

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Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games (Dagstuhl Seminar 12191). Dagstuhl Reports; DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.2.5.43

Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius

2012

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Computational intelligence in games. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '12, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-11, 2012, Companion Material Proceedings; DOI: 10.1145/2330784.2330934

Daniele Loiacono, Mike Preuß

2012

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Making Diplomacy Bots Individual. Believable Bots; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32323-2_11

Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann, Mike Preuss

2012

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BeatTheBeat music-based procedural content generation in a mobile game. 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2012, Granada, Spain, September 11-14, 2012; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2012.6374172

Annika Jordan, Dimitri Scheftelowitsch, Jan Lahni, Jannic Hartwecker, Matthias Kuchem, Mirko Walter-Huber, Nils Vortmeier, Tim Delbrügger, Ümit Güler, Igor Vatolkin, Mike Preuss

2011

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Driving Faster Than a Human Player. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20525-5_15

Jan Quadflieg, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph

2011

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TORCS sensor noise removal and multi-objective track selection for driving style adaptation. 2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2011, Seoul, South Korea, August 31 - September 3, 2011; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2011.6032025

Mike Preuss, Jan Quadflieg, Günter Rudolph

2011

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Nested Look-Ahead Evolutionary Algorithm Based Planning for a Believable Diplomacy Bot. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20525-5_9

Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann, Mike Preuss

2011

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Red teaming with coevolution. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA, 5-8 June, 2011; DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2011.5949747

Philip Hingston, Mike Preuss

2010

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Multiobjective exploration of the StarCraft map space. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-21 August, 2010; DOI: 10.1109/ITW.2010.5593346

Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Simon Wessing, Johan Hagelbäck, Georgios N. Yannakakis

2010

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Learning the track and planning ahead in a car racing controller. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-21 August, 2010; DOI: 10.1109/ITW.2010.5593327

Jan Quadflieg, Mike Preuss, Oliver Kramer, Günter Rudolph

2010

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Towards Intelligent Team Composition and Maneuvering in Real-Time Strategy Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games; DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2047645

Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Raphael Stür, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing

2010

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The 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games; DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2050590

Daniele Loiacono, Pier Luca Lanzi, Julian Togelius, Enrique Onieva, David A. Pelta, Martin V. Butz, Thies D. Lönneker, Luigi Cardamone, Diego Perez Liebana, Yago Sáez, Mike Preuss, Jan Quadflieg

2010

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Automatic adaptation to generated content via car setup optimization in TORCS. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-21 August, 2010; DOI: 10.1109/ITW.2010.5593361

Markus Kemmerling, Mike Preuss

2010

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RedTNet: A network model for strategy games. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010; DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586505

Philip Hingston, Mike Preuss, Daniel Spierling

2010

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AI and computational intelligence for real-time strategy games. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-21 August, 2010; DOI: 10.1109/ITW.2010.5593384

Johan Hagelbäck, Stefan J. Johansson, Mike Preuss

2009

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Is human-like and well playing contradictory for Diplomacy bots? Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2009, Milano, Italy, 7-10 September, 2009; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2009.5286472

Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann, Nicola Beume, Mike Preuss, Sebastian Uellenbeck, Wolfgang Walz

2008

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Intelligent moving of groups in real-time strategy games. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2009, Perth, Australia, 15-18 December, 2008; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2008.5035623

Holger Danielsiek, Raphael Stür, Andreas Thom, Nicola Beume, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss

2008

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To model or not to model: Controlling Pac-Man ghosts without incorporating global knowledge. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008, June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong, China; DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631266

Nicola Beume, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Georg Neugebauer, Nico Piatkowski, Mike Preuss, Raphael Stür, Andreas Thom

2008

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Measuring flow as concept for detecting game fun in the Pac-Man game. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008, June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong, China; DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631264

Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Christian Eichhorn, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss, Klaus D. Stiller, Simon Wessing

2008

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Intelligent anti-grouping in real-time strategy games. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2009, Perth, Australia, 15-18 December, 2008; DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2008.5035622

Nicola Beume, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing

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