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Context: Gamification is an emerging subject that has been applied in different areas, bringing contributions to different types of activities. Objective: This paper aims to characterize how gamification has been adopted in non-educational…

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Game AI competitions are important to foster research and development on Game AI and AI in general. These competitions supply different challenging problems that can be translated into other contexts, virtual or real. They provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ana Salta , Rui Prada , Francisco S. Melo

Mathematics is often perceived as difficult or inaccessible, yet meaningful engagement can arise in unexpected places. In this article we describe a multi-year exploration of mathematical outreach through games, puzzles, exhibitions, and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Hugo Parlier , Bruno Teheux

There has been a remarkable increase in work at the interface of computer science and game theory in the past decade. In this article I survey some of the main themes of work in the area, with a focus on the work in computer science. Given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Joseph Y. Halpern

We discuss topological versions of the closed graph theorem, where continuity is inferred from near continuity in tandem with suitable conditions on source or target spaces. We seek internal characterizations of spaces satisfying a closed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Dominikus Noll

This article is a survey of recent developments in, and a tutorial on, the approach to P v. NP and related questions called Geometric Complexity Theory (GCT). It is written to be accessible to graduate students. Numerous open questions in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-13 J. M. Landsberg

Gamification refers to the process of adding game elements to a task. Of late, this process has been introduced in pedagogical settings to capture the attention and interest of students. In our study, we apply the process to Anatomy…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-23 De-Zhang Lee , Vik Gopal , Jia-Min Chan , Li-Shia Ng , Eng-Tat Ang

This paper presents an alternative approach to simplify the proofs of some important results related to polynomial mappings in Computational Algebraic Geometry such as Polynomial Implicitization, Image Closure and some properties of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Yongbi Li

We study the class of potential games that are also graphical games with respect to a given graph $G$ of connections between the players. We show that, up to strategic equivalence, this class of games can be identified with the set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Yakov Babichenko , Omer Tamuz

This is an expository article on the techniques of quantization as they are applied to Gromov-Witten theory and related areas.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-05 Emily Clader , Nathan Priddis , Mark Shoemaker

This is a theoretical and computational strategy exploration of the visually attractive game IQ-Link. Not all games which are visually appealing are worthy of your time as a puzzlist. This analysis gives a would-be addict some idea of what…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Donna A. Dietz

The soft topological spaces and some their related concepts have stud- ied in [7]. In this paper, we introduce and study the notions of soft connected topological spaces after a review of preliminary definitions.

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-02-09 E. Peyghan , B. Samadi , A. Tayebi

In this short essay, we show how computer experiments, and especially visualization, allowed for the investigation and discovery of phenomena which would have passed unnoticed. We shall also highlight the importance of interactivity between…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-03-22 J. -R. Chazottes , M. Monticelli

Poset games have been the object of mathematical study for over a century, but little has been written on the computational complexity of determining important properties of these games. In this introduction we develop the fundamentals of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Stephen A. Fenner , John Rogers

Gamification applies game mechanics to non-game environments to motivate and engage users. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers powerful tools for personalizing and optimizing gamification, adapting to users' needs, preferences, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos J. Costa , Joao Tiago Aparicio , Manuela Aparicio , Sofia Aparicio

Various kinds of data are routinely represented as discrete probability distributions. Examples include text documents summarized by histograms of word occurrences and images represented as histograms of oriented gradients. Viewing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Ziga Virk , Hubert Wagner

Some of the basic concepts of topology are explored through known physics problems. This helps us in two ways, one, in motivating the definitions and the concepts, and two, in showing that topological analysis leads to a clearer…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-09 Somendra M Bhattacharjee

We consider a simple game, the $k$-regular graph game, in which players take turns adding edges to an initially empty graph subject to the constraint that the degrees of vertices cannot exceed $k$. We show a sharp topological threshold for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden

The nascent field of neurogames relies on active Brain-Computer Interface input to drive its game mechanics. Consequently, users expect their conscious will to be meaningfully reflected on the virtual environment they're engaging in.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Diego Saldivar

I review few conceptual steps in analytic description of topological interactions, which constitute the basis of a new interdisciplinary branch in mathematical physics, "Statistical Topology", emerged at the edge of topology and statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. K. Nechaev