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Rule Schemata for Game Artificial Intelligence

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA-SBIA 2006 (IBERAMIA 2006, SBIA 2006)

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Rule-based systems are a promising means to specify interface standards for artificial intelligence tools and modules for games, as advocated by the International Game Developers Association. Rules, however, can be too flexible, allowing undisciplined and “dirty” programming styles and solutions. We advocate in this paper that although rules are a good starting point towards standardising artificial intelligence techniques in games, they must be complemented with automatically verifiable rule schemata to ensure the appropriate implementation of such techniques and theories. We illustrate our point with a specific rule-based implementation of a theory of norms for synthetic characters which enables the specification of sophisticated behaviours.

Work partially sponsored by FAPESP and CNPq – Brazil.

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  1. Dept of Computer Science, Univ de São Paulo, Brazil

    Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva

  2. Dept of Computing Science, Univ of Aberdeen, UK

    Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

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  1. Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) Escola Politécnica (EP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP),  

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  2. Dep. de Informática, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal

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  3. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo,, Av. Trabalhador Sao-Carlense, 400, Centro, CP: 668, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

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da Silva, F.S.C., Vasconcelos, W.W. (2006). Rule Schemata for Game Artificial Intelligence. In: Sichman, J.S., Coelho, H., Rezende, S.O. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA-SBIA 2006. IBERAMIA SBIA 2006 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11874850_49

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