Overview
Describes many details of state-of-the-art games
Addresses significant artificial intelligence issues
Interesting for games developers and academic researchers
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
We share our modern world with bots – chatbots to converse with, roombots to clean our houses, spambots to fill our e-mail inboxes, and medibots to assist our surgeons. This book is about computer game bots, virtual companions who accompany us in virtual worlds or sharpen our fighting skills. These bots must be believable, that is human players should believe they are interacting with entities operating at a human level – bots are more fun if they behave like we do. This book shows how to create believable bots that play computer games, and it discusses the implications of making them appear human.
The chapters in this book present the state of the art in research on and development of game bots, and they also look beyond the design aspects to address deep questions: Is a bot that plays like a person intelligent? Does it have emotions? Is it conscious? The topic is inherently interdisciplinary, and the work draws from research and practice in many fields, such as design, creativity, entertainment, and graphics; learning, psychology, and sociology; artificial intelligence, embodiment, agents, machine learning, robotics, human–computer interaction, and artificial life; cognition and neuroscience; and evolutionary computing. The contributing authors are among the leading researchers and developers in this field, and most of the examples and case studies involve analysis of commercial products.
The book will be of value to graduate students and academic researchers in artificial intelligence, and to engineers charged with the design of entertaining games.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Believable Bots
Book Subtitle: Can Computers Play Like People?
Editors: Philip Hingston
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32323-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32322-5Published: 20 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44595-8Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32323-2Published: 19 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 318
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Personality and Social Psychology