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While game-theoretic planning frameworks are effective at modeling multi-agent interactions, they require solving large optimization problems where the number of variables increases with the number of agents, resulting in long computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Tianyu Qiu , Eric Ouano , Fernando Palafox , Christian Ellis , David Fridovich-Keil

Optimization of complex functions, such as the output of computer simulators, is a difficult task that has received much attention in the literature. A less studied problem is that of optimization under unknown constraints, i.e., when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-07-06 Robert B. Gramacy , Herbert K. H. Lee

Game-like programs have become increasingly popular in many software engineering domains such as mobile apps, web applications, or programming education. However, creating tests for programs that have the purpose of challenging human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser

The established way of interfacing with most computer systems is a mouse and keyboard. Hand gestures are an intuitive and effective touchless way to interact with computer systems. However, hand gesture based systems have seen low adoption…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sriram Krishna , Nishant Sinha

Game designs often center on the game mechanics---rules governing the logical evolution of the game. We seek to develop an intelligent system that generates computer games. As first steps towards this goal we present a composable and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Alexander Zook , Mark O. Riedl

Generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) is a solution concept for complete information games, in which each player's objective function and feasible region depend on other players' actions. While numerical methods for finding GNE when players…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Stuart M. Harwood , Dimitri J. Papageorgiou

Games are natural models for multi-agent machine learning settings, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs). The desirable outcomes from algorithmic interactions in these games are encoded as game theoretic equilibrium concepts, e.g.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gabriel P. Andrade , Rafael Frongillo , Georgios Piliouras

Stochastic games combine controllable and adversarial non-determinism with stochastic behavior and are a common tool in control, verification and synthesis of reactive systems facing uncertainty. Multi-objective stochastic games are natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Tobias Winkler , Maximilian Weininger

Quantum Decision Theory, advanced earlier by the authors, and illustrated for lotteries with gains, is generalized to the games containing lotteries with gains as well as losses. The mathematical structure of the approach is based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-20 V. I. Yukalov , D. Sornette

Game balancing is an important part of the (computer) game design process, in which designers adapt a game prototype so that the resulting gameplay is as entertaining as possible. In industry, the evaluation of a game is often based on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

TRUST is an open-source software tool developed for data-driven controller synthesis of dynamical systems with unknown mathematical models, ensuring either stability or safety properties. By collecting only a single input-state trajectory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jamie Gardner , Ben Wooding , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper introduces a scoping review of 55 articles to explore GPT's potential for games, offering researchers a comprehensive understanding of the current applications and identifying both emerging trends and unexplored areas. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Daijin Yang , Erica Kleinman , Casper Harteveld

This paper contributes a new way to evaluate AI. Much as one might evaluate a machine in terms of its performance at chess, this approach involves evaluating a machine in terms of its performance at a game called "MAD Chairs". At the time…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chris Santos-Lang

We present a neural network verification toolbox to 1) assess the probability of satisfaction of a constraint, and 2) synthesize a set expansion factor to achieve the probability of satisfaction. Specifically, the tool box establishes with…

Value methods for solving stochastic games with partial observability model the uncertainty about states of the game as a probability distribution over possible states. The dimension of this belief space is the number of states. For many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Karel Horák , Branislav Bošanský , Christopher Kiekintveld , Charles Kamhoua

As pre-diagnostic technologies are becoming increasingly accessible, using them to improve the quality of care available to dementia patients and their caregivers is of increasing interest. Specifically, we aim to develop a tool for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Garrett Goodman , Tanvi Banerjee , William Romine , Cogan Shimizu , Jennifer Hughes

In this paper we introduce new types of square-piece jigsaw puzzles, where in addition to the unknown location and orientation of each piece, a piece might also need to be flipped. These puzzles, which are associated with a number of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Dror Sholomon , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

We compare complex networks built from the game of go and obtained from databases of human-played games with those obtained from computer-played games. Our investigations show that statistical features of the human-based networks and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-16 C. Coquidé , B. Georgeot , O. Giraud

Stochastic games are a classical model in game theory in which two opponents interact and the environment changes in response to the players' behavior. The central solution concepts for these games are the discounted values and the value,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Miquel Oliu-Barton

This work tackles the complexities of multi-player scenarios in \emph{unknown games}, where the primary challenge lies in navigating the uncertainty of the environment through bandit feedback alongside strategic decision-making. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yingru Li , Liangqi Liu , Wenqiang Pu , Hao Liang , Zhi-Quan Luo