Title
There Can Be only One: Evolving RTS Bots via Joust Selection.
Abstract
This paper proposes an evolutionary algorithm for evolving game bots that eschews an explicit fitness function using instead a match between individuals called joust and implemented as a selection mechanism where only the winner survives. This algorithm has been designed as an optimization approach to generate the behavioural engine of bots for the RTS game Planet Wars using Genetic Programming and has two objectives: first, to deal with the noisy nature of the fitness function and second, to obtain more general bots than those evolved using a specific opponent. In addition, avoiding the explicit evaluation step reduce the number of combats to perform during the evolution and thus, the algorithm time consumption is decreased. Results show that the approach performs converges, is less sensitive to noise than other methods and it yields very competitive bots in the comparison against other bots available in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0_35
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Genetic programming,Fitness function,Artificial intelligence
Conference
9597
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.41
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Fernández-Ares1598.59
Pablo García-sánchez218232.32
Antonio Miguel Mora331442.81
Pedro A. Castillo417733.68
Juan J. Merelo517726.16