A survey on the need and use of AI in game agents Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4039453, abstract = {This paper firstly seeks an answer to the question of whether Non Player Characters (NPCs) in Computer Games can also be viewed as game agents where reactivity, autonomy, being temporarily continuous and having goal-oriented behavior are taken as the features of being a game agent. Within this scope, we will try to assess whether naming NPCs as agents point to a desire that one day they would fulfill the requirements of being an agent or whether NPCs actually already fulfill these requirements. Secondly, the paper looks into the AI needs of video games. We present the AI methodologies that are either being used and under research for use in Game AI. The same methodologies are also likely to contribute to the increasing levels of autonomy and goal-directed behavior of NPCs and help them become more agent-like.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Yildirim, Sule and Stene, Sindre B.}, booktitle = {SpringSim '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Spring simulation multiconference}, citeulike-article-id = {4039453}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1400565}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1400549.1400565}, doi = {10.1145/1400549.1400565}, isbn = {1-56555-319-5}, keywords = {ai, video-games}, location = {Ottawa, Canada}, pages = {124--131}, posted-at = {2009-02-12 16:54:44}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A survey on the need and use of AI in game agents}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1400549.1400565}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4039453 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4039453 N2 - This paper firstly seeks an answer to the question of whether Non Player Characters (NPCs) in Computer Games can also be viewed as game agents where reactivity, autonomy, being temporarily continuous and having goal-oriented behavior are taken as the features of being a game agent. Within this scope, we will try to assess whether naming NPCs as agents point to a desire that one day they would fulfill the requirements of being an agent or whether NPCs actually already fulfill these requirements. Secondly, the paper looks into the AI needs of video games. We present the AI methodologies that are either being used and under research for use in Game AI. The same methodologies are also likely to contribute to the increasing levels of autonomy and goal-directed behavior of NPCs and help them become more agent-like. CY - Ottawa, Canada SN - 1-56555-319-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 131 TI - A survey on the need and use of AI in game agents PB - ACM T2 - SpringSim '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Spring simulation multiconference SP - 124 KW - ai KW - video-games AU - Yildirim, Sule AU - Stene, Sindre PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1400549.1400565 ER -