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Kingdomino is introduced as an interesting game for studying game playing: the game is multiplayer (4 independent players per game); it has a limited game depth (13 moves per player); and it has limited but not insignificant interaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Magnus Gedda , Mikael Z. Lagerkvist , Martin Butler

Learning problems commonly exhibit an interesting feedback mechanism wherein the population data reacts to competing decision makers' actions. This paper formulates a new game theoretic framework for this phenomenon, called "multi-player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Adhyyan Narang , Evan Faulkner , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Maryam Fazel , Lillian J. Ratliff

As the complexity and scope of games increase, game testing, also called playtesting, becomes an essential activity to ensure the quality of video games. Yet, the manual, ad-hoc nature of game testing leaves space for automation. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Cristiano Politowski , Fabio Petrillo , Ghizlane ElBoussaidi , Gabriel C. Ullmann , Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

Human computation games (HCGs) can provide novel solutions to intractable computational problems, help enable scientific breakthroughs, and provide datasets for artificial intelligence. However, our knowledge about how to design and deploy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Kristin Siu , Matthew Guzdial , Mark O. Riedl

Unsupervised person re-identification has achieved great success through the self-improvement of individual neural networks. However, limited by the lack of diversity of discriminant information, a single network has difficulty learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yunpeng Zhai , Peixi Peng , Mengxi Jia , Shiyong Li , Weiqiang Chen , Xuesong Gao , Yonghong Tian

We investigate the impact of supervised prediction models on the strength and efficiency of artificial agents that use the Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm to play a popular video game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. We overview…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Maciej Świechowski , Tomasz Tajmajer , Andrzej Janusz

The article presents the use of Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithms for the card game Lord of the Rings. The main challenge was the complexity of the game mechanics, in which each round consists of 5 decision stages and 2 random stages. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Konrad Godlewski , Bartosz Sawicki

Despite their outstanding capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination and producing factually incorrect information. This challenge has spurred efforts in attributed text generation, which prompts LLMs to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Junyi Li , Hwee Tou Ng

Basically, in (one-player) war Real Time Strategy (wRTS) games a human player controls, in real time, an army consisting of a number of soldiers and her aim is to destroy the opponent's assets where the opponent is a virtual (i.e.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-17 José A. García Gutiérrez , Carlos Cotta , Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva

The recent introduction of the Assistants API highlights its potential for large language models (LLMs) in role-playing agents (RPA). However, maintaining consistent character personas remains a significant challenge due to variability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jeiyoon Park , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

In this study into the player's emotional theory of mind of gameplaying agents, we investigate how an agent's behaviour and the player's own performance and emotions shape the recognition of a frustrated behaviour. We focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-24 David Melhart , Georgios N. Yannakakis , Antonios Liapis

Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon ideas and techniques from a diverse range of fields,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 David Parker

This paper introduces a new Negotiating Agent for automated negotiation on continuous domains and without considering a specified deadline. The agent bidding strategy relies on Monte Carlo Tree Search, which is a trendy method since it has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Cédric Buron , Zahia Guessoum , Sylvain Ductor

In this chapter, we deal with some specific domains of applications to game theory. This is one of the major class of models in the new approaches of modelling in the economic domain. For that, we use genetic automata which allow to build…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-18 Rawan Ghnemat , Saleh Oqeili , Cyrille Bertelle , Gérard Henry Edmond Duchamp

To solve the problem of lateral and logitudinal joint decision-making of multi-vehicle cooperative driving for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper proposes a Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) method with parallel update for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ye Han , Lijun Zhang , Dejian Meng , Zhuang Zhang , Xingyu Hu , Songyu Weng

Automated interpretation of signals yields many impressive applications from the area of affective computing and human activity recognition (HAR). In this paper we ask the question about possibility of cognitive activity recognition on the…

We integrate dual-process theories of human cognition with evolutionary game theory to study the evolution of automatic and controlled decision-making processes. We introduce a model where agents who make decisions using either automatic or…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Danielle F. P. Toupo , Steven H. Strogatz , Jonathan D. Cohen , David G. Rand

Protecting against adversarial attacks is a common multiagent problem. Attackers in the real world are predominantly human actors, and the protection methods often incorporate opponent models to improve the performance when facing humans.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-29 David Milec , Viliam Lisý , Christopher Kiekintveld

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods have proven powerful in planning for sequential decision-making problems such as Go and video games, but their performance can be poor when the planning depth and sampling trajectories are limited or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Xiaoxiao Guo , Satinder Singh , Richard Lewis , Honglak Lee

Playtesting is the process in which people play a video game for testing. It is critical for the quality assurance of gaming software. Manual playtesting is time-consuming and expensive. However, automating this process is challenging, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yan Zhao , Chiwei Tang