BDI agents for game development Export

@inproceedings{Bartish2002, abstract = {The study of game related topics has long been the subject of research and development, however game Artificial Intelligence (AI) predominantly uses classical AI simulation techniques. Older computational models such as state machines continue to be used as the back bone for game AI development even though alternative models are available. In this research, we have attempted to shed some light on how the choice of implementation may affect the important factors such as performance, and complexity as the games scales up. Our findings show that agents and finite state machines have their relative merits. We have shown that complexity measured as a function of the number of behaviours, was linear for agents and quadratic for FSM. Though run-time performance is comparable for a small number of entities, it degrades at a higher rate for agents.}, author = {Bartish, Arran and Thevathayan, Charles}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS '02)}, citeulike-article-id = {3149418}, keywords = {aose, bdi, fsm, performance, scalability}, pages = {668--669}, posted-at = {2008-08-22 17:09:27}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {{BDI} agents for game development}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - Bartish2002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3149418 N2 - The study of game related topics has long been the subject of research and development, however game Artificial Intelligence (AI) predominantly uses classical AI simulation techniques. Older computational models such as state machines continue to be used as the back bone for game AI development even though alternative models are available. In this research, we have attempted to shed some light on how the choice of implementation may affect the important factors such as performance, and complexity as the games scales up. Our findings show that agents and finite state machines have their relative merits. We have shown that complexity measured as a function of the number of behaviours, was linear for agents and quadratic for FSM. Though run-time performance is comparable for a small number of entities, it degrades at a higher rate for agents. EP - 669 TI - {BDI} agents for game development PB - ACM Press T2 - Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS '02) SP - 668 KW - aose KW - bdi KW - fsm KW - performance KW - scalability AU - Bartish, Arran AU - Thevathayan, Charles PY - 2002/// ER -