Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: González-Calero, Pedro Antonio (Editor), Gómez-Martín, Marco Antonio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

Techniques used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in commercial video games are still far from state-of-the art in Academia, but with graphics in video games coming close to photo realistic quality, and multi-processor architectures getting common in console and PC game platforms, sophisticated AI is...

Table of Contents:

• Visual Data Mining of Player Traces in Interactive Environments
• Heuristic search methods for pathfinding
• Pattern-based AI Scripting
• Case-Based Reasoning and User-Generated Gameplay
• Knowledge acquisition for adaptive game AI
• Game AI as Storytelling
• Affective Interactive Narrative
• Virtual Humans
• Interactive Drama
• Dynamic Behaviour Trees.