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Formal models of games help us account for and predict behavior, leading to more robust and innovative designs. While the games research community has proposed many formalisms for both the "game half" (game models, game description…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Chris Martens , Matthew A. Hammer

To some, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) promises better decision-making and increased military effectiveness while reducing the influence of human error and emotions. However, there is still debate about how AI systems,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Max Lamparth , Anthony Corso , Jacob Ganz , Oriana Skylar Mastro , Jacquelyn Schneider , Harold Trinkunas

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

Game environments provide rich, controllable settings that stimulate many aspects of real-world complexity. As such, game agents offer a valuable testbed for exploring capabilities relevant to Artificial General Intelligence. Recently, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Sihao Hu , Tiansheng Huang , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Fatih Ilhan , Selim Furkan Tekin , Yichang Xu , Zachary Yahn , Ling Liu

Videogames have been a catalyst for advances in many research fields, such as artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction or virtual reality. Over the years, research in fields such as artificial intelligence has enabled the design…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Paolo Burelli , Laurits Dixen

With respect to digital games, older adults are a demographic that is often underserved due to an industry-wide focus on younger audiences' preferences and skill sets. Meanwhile, as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand into…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yichi Zhang , Brandon Lyman , Celia Pearce , Miso Kim , Casper Harteveld , Leanne Chukoskie , Bob De Schutter

AI-controlled characters in fighting games are expected to possess reasonably high skills and behave in a believable, human-like manner, exhibiting a diversity of play styles and strategies. Thus, the development of fighting game AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Kaori Yuda , Shota Kamei , Riku Tanji , Ryoya Ito , Ippo Wakana , Maxim Mozgovoy

Multiplayer games have long been used as testbeds in artificial intelligence research, aptly referred to as the Drosophila of artificial intelligence. Traditionally, researchers have focused on using well-known games to build strong agents.…

As Machine Learning (ML) systems becomes more ubiquitous, ensuring the fair and equitable application of their underlying algorithms is of paramount importance. We argue that one way to achieve this is to proactively cultivate public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Eric Chu , Nabeel Gillani , Sneha Priscilla Makini

Game-theoretic interactions with AI agents could differ from traditional human-human interactions in various ways. One such difference is that it may be possible to simulate an AI agent (for example because its source code is known), which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Vojtech Kovarik , Caspar Oesterheld , Vincent Conitzer

While Artificial Intelligence has successfully outperformed humans in complex combinatorial games (such as chess and checkers), humans have retained their supremacy in social interactions that require intuition and adaptation, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko , Jacob Crandall , Manuel Cebrian , Sherief Abdallah , Iyad Rahwan

Protecting cyberspace requires not only advanced tools but also a shift in how we reason about threats, trust, and autonomy. Traditional cybersecurity methods rely on manual responses and brittle heuristics. To build proactive and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Quanyan Zhu

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have been strongly driven by the use of game environments for training and evaluating agents. Games are often accessible and versatile, with well-defined state-transitions and goals allowing for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Benjamin Beyret , José Hernández-Orallo , Lucy Cheke , Marta Halina , Murray Shanahan , Matthew Crosby

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the intelligence demonstrated by machines, and within the realm of AI, Machine Learning (ML) stands as a notable subset. ML employs algorithms that undergo training on data sets, enabling them to carry…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Talia Crawford , Scott Duong , Richard Fueston , Ayorinde Lawani , Samuel Owoade , Abel Uzoka , Reza M. Parizi , Abbas Yazdinejad

While games have been used extensively as milestones to evaluate game-playing AI, there exists no standardised framework for reporting the obtained observations. As a result, it remains difficult to draw general conclusions about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vanessa Volz , Boris Naujoks

From the beginning if the history of AI, there has been interest in games as a platform of research. As the field developed, human-level competence in complex games became a target researchers worked to reach. Only relatively recently has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Rodrigo Canaan , Christoph Salge , Julian Togelius , Andy Nealen

The development of AI agents based on large, open-domain language models (LLMs) has paved the way for the development of general-purpose AI assistants that can support human in tasks such as writing, coding, graphic design, and scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mustafa Mert Çelikok , Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , Robert Loftin

In this article, we review recent Deep Learning advances in the context of how they have been applied to play different types of video games such as first-person shooters, arcade games, and real-time strategy games. We analyze the unique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Niels Justesen , Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

As the population continues to age, and gaming continues to grow as a hobby for older people, heterogeneity among older adult gamers is increasing. We argue that traditional game-based accessibility features, such as simplified input…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Brandon Lyman , Yichi Zhang , Celia Pearce , Miso Kim , Casper Harteveld , Leanne Chukoskie , Bob De Schutter