Artificial Intelligence and Games

• Main Authors: Yannakakis, Georgios N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Togelius, Julian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Computer games-Programming.; Computational intelligence.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Artificial Intelligence.; Game Development.; Computational Intelligence.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.

This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Background
• Introduction
• AI Methods
• Part II Ways of Using AI in Games
• Playing Games
• Generating Content
• Modeling Players
• Part III, The Road Ahead
• Game AI Panorama
• Frontiers of Game AI Research
• References
• Index.