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This paper advocates the exploration of the full state of recorded real-time strategy (RTS) games, by human or robotic players, to discover how to reason about tactics and strategy. We present a dataset of StarCraft games encompassing the…

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Recently, multiple approaches for creating agents for playing various complex real-time computer games such as StarCraft II or Dota 2 were proposed, however, they either embed a significant amount of expert knowledge into the agent or use a…

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Terrain analysis in Real-Time Strategy games is a necessary step to allow spacial reasoning. The goal of terrain analysis is to gather and process data about the map topology and properties to have a qualitative spatial representation. On…

StarCraft, one of the most popular real-time strategy games, is a compelling environment for artificial intelligence research for both micro-level unit control and macro-level strategic decision making. In this study, we address an eminent…

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Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games have recently become a popular testbed for artificial intelligence research. They represent a complex adversarial domain providing a number of interesting AI challenges. There exists a wide variety of…

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