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In recent years, the fields of artificial intelligence and web-based programming have seen tremendous advancements, enabling developers to create dynamic and interactive websites and applications. At the forefront of these advancements,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Benjamin Kenwright

The emergence of complex life on Earth is often attributed to the arms race that ensued from a huge number of organisms all competing for finite resources. We present an artificial intelligence research environment, inspired by the human…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Joseph Suarez , Yilun Du , Phillip Isola , Igor Mordatch

This paper reviews the field of Game AI, which not only deals with creating agents that can play a certain game, but also with areas as diverse as creating game content automatically, game analytics, or player modelling. While Game AI was…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sebastian Risi , Mike Preuss

Wargames are simulations of conflicts in which participants' decisions influence future events. While casual wargaming can be used for entertainment or socialization, serious wargaming is used by experts to explore strategic implications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Glenn Matlin , Parv Mahajan , Isaac Song , Yixiong Hao , Ryan Bard , Stu Topp , Evan Montoya , M. Rehan Parwani , Soham Shetty , Mark Riedl

In recent years, machine learning approaches have made dramatic advances, reaching superhuman performance in Go, Atari, and poker variants. These games, and others before them, have served not only as a testbed but have also helped to push…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Danny Halawi , Aron Sarmasi , Siena Saltzen , Joshua McCoy

The history of humanhood has included competitive activities of many different forms. Sports have offered many benefits beyond that of entertainment. At the time of this article, there exists not a competitive ecosystem for cyber security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Jovonni L. Pharr

The General Video Game AI (GVGAI) competition and its associated software framework provides a way of benchmarking AI algorithms on a large number of games written in a domain-specific description language. While the competition has seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Ruben Rodriguez Torrado , Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius , Jialin Liu , Diego Perez-Liebana

It is common for us to feel pressure in a competition environment, which arises from the desire to obtain success comparing with other individuals or opponents. Although we might get anxious under the pressure, it could also be a drive for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Kangyao Huang , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Huaping Liu

In the future, artificial learning agents are likely to become increasingly widespread in our society. They will interact with both other learning agents and humans in a variety of complex settings including social dilemmas. We argue that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tobias Baumann

Many works in the domain of artificial intelligence in games focus on board or video games due to the ease of reimplementing their mechanics. Decision-making problems in real-world sports share many similarities to such domains.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Carlo Nübel , Alexander Dockhorn , Sanaz Mostaghim

Gaming environments are popular testbeds for studying human interactions and behaviors in complex artificial intelligence systems. Particularly, in multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games, individuals collaborate in virtual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Angelo Josey Caldeira , Sajan Maharjan , Srijoni Majumdar , Evangelos Pournaras

The multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre has gained significant popularity and economic success, attracting considerable research interest within the Human-Computer Interaction community. Enhancing the gaming experience requires a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Ge Fan , Chaoyun Zhang , Kai Wang , Yingjie Li , Junyang Chen , Zenglin Xu

There has been much discourse on the ethics of AI, to the extent that there are now systems that possess inherent moral reasoning. Such machines are now formally known as Artificial Moral Agents or AMAs. However, there is a requirement for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aisha Aijaz

From the early days of computing, games have been important testbeds for studying how well machines can do sophisticated decision making. In recent years, machine learning has made dramatic advances with artificial agents reaching…

We present an innovative methodology for studying and teaching the impacts of AI through a role play game. The game serves two primary purposes: 1) training AI developers and AI policy professionals to reflect on and prepare for future…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Shahar Avin , Ross Gruetzemacher , James Fox

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are booming in the field of collaborative intelligence, and StarCraft multi-agent challenge (SMAC) is widely-used as the benchmark therein. However, imaginary opponents of MARL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yadong Li , Tong Zhang , Bo Huang , Zhen Cui

Recent progress in Game AI has demonstrated that given enough data from human gameplay, or experience gained via simulations, machines can rival or surpass the most skilled human players in classic games such as Go, or commercial computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-28 James Goodman , Sebastian Risi , Simon Lucas

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

Serious games are widely used for learning and training across domains such as healthcare, defense, and education. Persistent challenges remain, however, including static scenario design, authoring bottlenecks, limited learner modeling, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Priyamvada Tripathi , Bill Kapralos

Competitive Self-Play (CSP) based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has shown phenomenal breakthroughs recently. Strong AIs are achieved for several benchmarks, including Dota 2, Glory of Kings, Quake III, StarCraft II, to name a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Sun , Jiechao Xiong , Lei Han , Xinghai Sun , Shuxing Li , Jiawei Xu , Meng Fang , Zhengyou Zhang