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Werewolf is a popular party game throughout the world, and research on its significance has progressed in recent years. The Werewolf game is based on conversation, and in order to win, participants must use all of their cognitive abilities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Mohiuddeen Khan , Claus Aranha

The modern machine learning methods allow one to obtain the data-driven models in various ways. However, the more complex the model is, the harder it is to interpret. In the paper, we describe the algorithm for the mathematical equations…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Alexander Hvatov , Mikhail Maslyaev

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Anupriya Gogna , Akash Tayal

Although multigrid is asymptotically optimal for solving many important partial differential equations, its efficiency relies heavily on the careful selection of the individual algorithmic components. In contrast to recent approaches that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Dinesh Parthasarathy , Wayne Mitchell , Arjun Gambhir , Harald Köstler , Ulrich Rüde

As an equilibrium refinement of the Nash equilibrium, evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a key concept in evolutionary game theory and has attracted growing interest. An ESS can be either a pure strategy or a mixed strategy. Even…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Xinyang Deng , Zhen Wang , Qi Liu , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

In 1901, Bouton proved that a winning strategy of the game of Nim is given by the bitwise XOR, called the nim-sum. But, why does such a weird binary operation work? Led by this question, this paper introduces a categorical reinterpretation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Ryuya Hora

In this paper, an evolutionary strategy (ES) method is introduced as an optimization approach to solve problems in the manufacturing area. The ES method is applied to a case study for milling operations. The results show that it can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Zhixin Yang

We investigate two representation alternatives for the controllers of teams of cyber agents. We combine these controller representations with different evolutionary algorithms, one of which introduces a novel LLM-supported mutation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Erik Hemberg , Eric Liu , Lucille Fuller , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

Concurrent multi-player games with $\omega$-regular objectives are a standard model for systems that consist of several interacting components, each with its own objective. The standard solution concept for such games is Nash Equilibrium,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Shaull Almagor , Shai Guendelman

Evolutionary machine learning (EML) has been applied to games in multiple ways, and for multiple different purposes. Importantly, AI research in games is not only about playing games; it is also about generating game content, modeling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Julian Togelius , Ahmed Khalifa , Sam Earle , Michael Cerny Green , Lisa Soros

We study nondeterministic strategies in parity games with the aim of computing a most permissive winning strategy. Following earlier work, we measure permissiveness in terms of the average number/weight of transitions blocked by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Jörg Olschewski , Michael Ummels

We use co-evolutionary genetic algorithms to model the players' learning process in several Cournot models, and evaluate them in terms of their convergence to the Nash Equilibrium. The "social-learning" versions of the two co-evolutionary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-13 Mattheos K. Protopapas , Elias B. Kosmatopoulos , Francesco Battaglia

The Zoetrope Genetic Programming (ZGP) algorithm is based on an original representation for mathematical expressions, targeting evolutionary symbolic regression.The zoetropic representation uses repeated fusion operations between partial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-26 Aurélie Boisbunon , Carlo Fanara , Ingrid Grenet , Jonathan Daeden , Alexis Vighi , Marc Schoenauer

In the original Evolutionary Minority Game, a segregation into two populations with opposing preferences is observed under many circumstances. We show that this segregation becomes more pronounced and more robust if the dynamics are changed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard Metzler , Christian Horn

Evolutionary spatial 2 x 2 games between heterogeneous agents are analyzed using different variants of cellular automata (CA). Agents play repeatedly against their nearest neighbors 2 x 2 games specified by a rescaled payoff matrix with two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Hugo Fort , Estrella Sicardi

Mutation is one of the most important stages of the genetic algorithm because of its impact on the exploration of global optima, and to overcome premature convergence. There are many types of mutation, and the problem lies in selection of…

We consider a class of continuous-time dynamic games involving a large number of players. Each player selects actions from a finite set and evolves through a finite set of states. State transitions occur stochastically and depend on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

Behavioural equivalences can be characterized via bisimulation, modal logics, and spoiler-duplicator games. In this paper we work in the general setting of coalgebra and focus on generic algorithms for computing the winning strategies of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Barbara König , Christina Mika-Michalski , Lutz Schröder

Small Progress Measures is one of the classical parity game solving algorithms. For games with n vertices, m edges and d different priorities, the original algorithm computes the winning regions and a winning strategy for one of the players…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Maciej Gazda , Tim A. C. Willemse

This paper examines the Evolutionary programming (EP) method for optimizing PID parameters. PID is the most common type of regulator within control theory, partly because it's relatively simple and yields stable results for most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Adam Nyberg