Mouse sensitivity in first-person targeting tasks is a highly debated issue. Recommendations within a single game can vary by a factor of 10× or more and are an active topic of experimentation in both competitive and recreational esports communities. …
In any game, play style is a concept that describes the technique and strategy employed by a player to achieve a goal. Identifying a player's style is desirable as it can enlighten players on which approaches work better or worse in different …
Playing games with cheaters is not fun, and in a multibillion-dollar video game industry with hundreds of millions of players, game developers aim to improve the security and, consequently, the user experience of their games by preventing cheating. …
In this article, we present an interpretable artificial intelligence, and its associated machine learning algorithm, that is capable of automatically learning the rules of a game whenever the rules—the relationship between a player’s current state …
Reinforcement learning (RL) combined with deep neural networks has performed remarkably well in many genres of games recently. It has surpassed human-level performance in fixed game environments and turn-based two-player board games. However, to the …
Digital collectible card games are not only a growing part of the video game industry, but also an interesting research area for the field of computational intelligence. This game genre allows researchers to deal with hidden information, uncertainty …
Voxel-based soft robots (VSRs) are robots composed of many small, cubic blocks of a soft material with mechanical properties similar to those of living tissues and that can change their volume based on signals emitted by the robot controller, i.e., …
We consider the problem of identifying within a given document all text items which follow a certain pattern to be specified by a user. In particular, we focus on scenarios in which the task is to be completed very quickly and the user is not able to …
Autonomous vehicles raise many ethical and moral issues that are not easy to deal with and that, if not addressed correctly, might be an obstacle to the advent of such a technological revolution. These issues are critical because autonomous vehicles …
Malware detection techniques based on signature extraction require security analysts to manually inspect samples to find evidences of malicious behavior. This time-consuming task received little attention by researchers and practitioners, as most of …