Games, once solely intended for entertainment, have emerged as a significant research
focus in recent years, with the primary goal of enhancing the gaming experience. Research …

Computer games are highly dynamic environments, where players are faced with a
multitude of potentially unseen scenarios. In this paper, AI controllers are applied to the …

Collectible card games have been among the most popular and profitable products of the
entertainment industry since the early days of Magic: The Gathering TM in the nineties …

One of the most notable features of collectible card games is deckbuilding, that is, defining a
personalized deck before the real game. Deckbuilding is a challenge that involves a big and …

Digital collectible card games are not only a growing part of the video game industry, but
also an interesting research area for the field of computational intelligence. This game genre …

Among Real-Time Strategy games few titles have enjoyed the continued success of
StarCraft. Many research lines aimed at develo** Artificial Intelligences, or “bots”, capable …

Gamer engagement with computer opponents is an important aspect of computer games.
Players will be bored if computer opponents are predictable, and the game will be …

The global community is awaiting the advent of a self-driving vehicle that is safe, reliable,
and capable of navigating a diverse range of road conditions and terrains. This requires a lot …

Abstract The Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge is an international contest the
objective of which is to program the AI in a two-player real time strategy (RTS) game. This AI …

Finding the global best strategy for an autonomous agent (bot) in a RTS game is a hard
problem, mainly because the techniques applied to do this must deal with uncertainty and …