Publications [109]

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2021 [14]

• PhD 2021 Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
  Raluca D. Gaina, PhD Thesis, Queen Mary University of London, UK, May, 2021.
  pubs-2021  thesis  ai  games  rhea  evolutionary-algorithms  optimisation
  
  
• IEEE TOG 2021 Danesh: Interactive Tools For Understanding Procedural Content Generators
  Cook, Michael and Gow, Jeremy and Smith, Gillian and Colton, Simon, in IEEE Transactions on Games, 2021.
  pubs-2021  ieee-tog  procedural-generation  computational-creativity  generative-software-analysis
  
  
• AIIDE 2021 TAG: Terraforming Mars
  Raluca D. Gaina and James Goodman and Diego Perez-Liebana, in Proceedings of the 17th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2021.
  pubs-2021  aiide  game-analysis  tabletop-games  general-game-playing  rhea  mcts  terraforming-mars
  
  
• AAMAS 2021 Action Advising with Advice Imitation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Ilhan, Ercument and Gow, Jeremy and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021.
  pubs-2021  aamas  reinforcement-learning
  
  
• 2021 Generalising Discrete Action Spaces with Conditional Action Trees
  Bamford, Christopher and Ovalle, Alvaro, in arXiv:2104.07294, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  strategy-games  reinforement-learning  action-spaces
  
  
• 2021 Griddly: A platform for AI research in games
  Bamford, Chris, in Software Impacts, 8, pp. 100066, 2021.
  pubs-2021  reinforcement-learning  griddly  strategy-games
  
  
• 2021 Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor
  Bravi, Ivan and Lucas, Simon, in arxiv:2106.08371, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  splendor  map-elites
  
  
• 2021 The Road Less Travelled: Trying And Failing To Generate Walking Simulators
  Cook, Michael, in arXiv:2104.10789, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  walking-simulator  procedural-content-generation
  
  
• 2021 The Social Responsibility of Game AI
  Cook, Michael, in arXiv:2105.15122, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  social-responsibility
  
  
• 2021 Portfolio Search and Optimization for General Strategy Game-Playing
  Dockhorn, Alexander and Hurtado-Grueso, Jorge and Jeurissen, Dominik and Xu, Linjie and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in arXiv:2104.10429, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  ai  games  strategy-games  portfolio  optimisation  general-video-game-playing  ntbea
  
  
• 2021 Expressivity of Parameterized and Data-driven Representations in Quality Diversity Search
  Hagg, Alexander and Berns, Sebastian and Asteroth, Alexander and Colton, Simon and Back, Thomas, in arxiv:2105.04247, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  computational-creativity  quality-diversity  optimisation
  
  
• 2021 Gym-μRTS: Toward Affordable Full Game Real-time Strategy Games Research with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Huang, Shengyi and Ontanon, Santiago and Bamford, Chris and Grela, Lukasz, in arXiv:2105.13807, 2021.
  pubs-2021  reinforcement-learning  strategy-games  microrts
  
  
• 2021 Learning on a Budget via Teacher Imitation
  Ilhan, Ercument and Gow, Jeremy and Perez-Liebana, Diego, in arXiv:2104.08440, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  reinforcement-learning  action-advising
  
  
• 2021 Generating Diverse and Competitive Play-Styles for Strategy Games
  Perez-Liebana, Diego and Guerrero-Romero, Cristina and Dockhorn, Alexander and Jeurissen, Dominik and Xu, Linjie, in arXiv:2104.08641, 2021.
  pubs-2021  arxiv  ai  games  strategy-games  tribes  mcts  map-elites  play-styles  portfolio
  
  

2020 [42]

• SKATG @ AIIDE 2020 STRATEGA: A General Strategy Games Framework
  Dockhorn, Alexander and Grueso, Jorge Hurtado and Jeurissen, Dominik and Liebana, Diego Perez, in AIIDE-20 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games, 2020.
  pubs-2020  aiide  strategy-games  general-video-game-playing  rhea  mcts
  
  
• SKATG @ AIIDE 2020 MCTS Pruning in Turn-Based Strategy Games
  Hsu, Yu-Jhen and Liebana, Diego Perez, in AIIDE-20 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Strategy Games, 2020.
  pubs-2020  aiide  strategy-games  mcts  tribes  polytopia  rhea
  
  
• PhD 2020 Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames
  Guckelsberger, Christian, PhD Thesis, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2020.
  pubs-2020  thesis  intrinsic-motivation  computational-creativity  player-experience
  
  
• IWAI 2020 Modulation of viability signals for self-regulatory control
  Ovalle, Alvaro and Lucas, Simon M, in International Workshop on Active Inference, pp. 101-113, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  reinforcement-learning
  
  
• IEEE TOG 2020 Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
  Raluca D. Gaina and Sam Devlin and Diego Perez-Liebana and Simon M. Lucas, in arxiv:2003.12331, 2020.
  pubs-2020  gvgai  general-video-game-playing  ieee-tog  rhea  optimisation  ntbea
  
  
• IEEE TOG 2020 Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning
  Tang, Zhentao and Zhu, Yuanheng and Zhao, Dongbin and Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Transactions on Games, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-tog  rhea  opponent-modelling  evolutionary-algorithms  fighting-games
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Evaluating Generalization in General Video Game Playing
  Balla, M and Lucas, Simon and Perez-Liebana, D, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  gvgai  general-vide-game-playing  evaluation
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels
  Bamford, Chris and Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 81-88, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  reinforcement-learning  mcts  gvgai  general-video-game-playing  learning-forward-models
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor
  Bravi, Ivan and Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 283-290, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  splendor  artificial-general-intelligence  benchmark  game-playing  hyper-parameter  optimisation
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Procedural Generation and Information Games
  Cook, Michael, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 253-260, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  procedural-content-generation  computational-creativity  information-games
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Software Engineering For Automated Game Design
  Cook, Michael, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 487-494, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  game-design  procedural-content-generation  computational-creativity
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games
  Dockhorn, Alexander and Lucas, Simon, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 716-723, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  forward-model-learning  general-video-game-playing  gvgai
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing
  Raluca D. Gaina and Chiara F. Sironi and Mark H.M. Winands and Diego Perez-Liebana and Simon M. Lucas, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  gvgai  general-vide-game-playing  rhea  optimisation
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Metagame Autobalancing for Competitive Multiplayer Games
  Hernandez, Daniel and Gbadamosi, Charles Takashi Toyin and Goodman, James and Walker, James Alfred, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 275-282, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  reinforcement-learning  game-balance  fighting-games
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin
  Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 774-775, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  game-development
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL
  Ovalle, Alvaro and Lucas, Simon M, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 495-502, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  reinforcement-learning  rhea
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing
  Diego Perez-Liebana and Muhammad Sajid Alam and Raluca D. Gaina, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  gvgai  general-vide-game-playing  rhea  neat
  
  
• IEEE COG 2020 Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer
  Volkovas, Rokas and Fairbank, Michael and Woodward, John R and Lucas, Simon, in IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 439-446, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cog  tools  game-design  visualisation
  
  
• IEEE CEC 2020 Does it matter how well I know what you’re thinking? Opponent Modelling in an RTS game
  Goodman, James and Lucas, Simon, in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), pp. 1-8, 2020.
  pubs-2020  ieee-cec  opponent-modelling  strategy-games
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
  Berns, Sebastian and Colton, Simon, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity  deep-learning
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Creativity Theatre for Demonstrable Computational Creativity
  Colton, Simon and McCormack, Jon and Cook, Michael and Berns, Sebastian, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), pp. 288-291, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 On the Machine Condition and its Creative Expression
  Colton, Simon and Pease, Alison and Guckelsberger, Christian and McCormack, Jon and Llano, Maria Teresa and others, in ICCC, pp. 342-349, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Explainable Computational Creativity
  Llano, Maria Teresa and d'Inverno, Mark and Yee-King, Matthew and McCormack, Jon and Ilsar, Alon and Pease, Alison and Colton, Simon, in 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, pp. 334-341, 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity
  
  
• ICCC 2020 Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools
  Petrovskaya, Elena and Deterding, Christoph Sebastian and Colton, Simon, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’20), 2020.
  pubs-2020  iccc  computational-creativity  tools  casual-creators
  
  
• GECCO 2020 Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks
  Schrum, Jacob and Gutierrez, Jake and Volz, Vanessa and Liu, Jialin and Lucas, Simon and Risi, Sebastian, in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 148-156, 2020.
  pubs-2020  gecco  evolutionary-algorithms  procedural-content-generation  gan