- author = "Raphael Crawford-Marks",
- title = "Virtual Witches and Warlocks: Computational Evolution of Teamwork and Strategy in a Dynamic, Heterogeneous and Noisy {3D} Environment",
- school = "School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College",
- year = "2004",
- type = "Division III (senior) Thesis",
- month = "18 " # may,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Coevolution, breve, Push",
-
URL = "
http://alum.hampshire.edu/~rpc01/div3.pdf",
-
URL = "
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.148.949",
- size = "64 pages, (pdf 460KB)",
- language = "en",
- oai = "oai:CiteSeerXPSU:10.1.1.148.949",
-
abstract = "Games make excellent challenge problems for Artificial
Intelligence. Two-player turn-based games (Backgammon,
Checkers, Chess) are easy to program, and AI players
can be benchmarked against humans of varying skill
levels. Recently, more complicated real-time team games
have received attention from researchers in the
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) fields because of the dynamic
environments and necessity for coordination. The
RoboCup Soccer Simulator is the most popular and
well-known of these environments. However, the soccer
simulator is restricted to only two dimensions, and
does not realistically model physics. This Division III
thesis describes a simulator of the imaginary game
Quidditch, and the automatic programming of
quidditch-playing teams by Genetic Programming. These
evolved teams of heterogeneous agents have offensive
and defensive behaviours, and show the beginnings of
real teamwork.
Now, I want a nice fair game, all of you, she said, once they were all gathered around her. Harry noticed that she seemed to be speaking particularly to the Slytherin Captain, Marcus Flint, a sixth year. Harry thought Flint looked as if he had some troll blood in him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter for President over the crowd. His heart skipped. He felt braver. Mount your brooms, please.",
- notes = "http://www.spiderland.org/breve.",
