Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)

Improving the Believability of Non-Player Characters in Simulations

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Jere D. Miles, Rahman Tashakkori
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Jere D. Miles
Available Online June 2009.
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10.2991/agi.2009.22How to use a DOI?
Abstract

In recent years the video game industry has experienced rapid expansion developing virtual environments that accurately mimic a real-world setting. However, the industry almost entirely relies on finite state machines for deploying computer-controlled characters within these environments. This has resulted in simulated inhabitants that lack the same degree of believability as their surroundings. As part of this research a simulation was developed using Java in which an agent was placed. In a survey students were asked to rank the believability of different artificial intelligence techniques employed by the simulation. The genetic algorithm developed for this simulation provided for an agent whose decisions were more believable than the decisions generated by a finite state machine or random selection process.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
June 2009
ISBN
10.2991/agi.2009.22
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1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/agi.2009.22How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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