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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Cover Image | |
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| Contributor Bios | |
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| General Wisdom | |
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| Custom Tool Design for Game AI | |
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| Using STL and Patterns for Game AI | |
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| Declarative AI Design for Games?Considerations for MMOGs | |
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| Designing for Emergence | |
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| Fun Game AI Design for Beginners | |
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| Strategies for Multiprocessor AI | |
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| Academic AI Research and Relations with the Game Industry | |
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| Writing AI as Sport | |
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| Pathfinding | |
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| Cooperative Pathfinding | |
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| Improving on Near-Optimality: More Techniques for Building Navigation Meshes | |
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| Smoothing a Navigation Mesh Path | |
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| Preprocessed Pathfinding Using the GPU | |
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| Movement | |
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| Flow Fields for Movement and Obstacle Avoidance | |
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| Autonomous Camera Control with Constraint Satisfaction Methods | |
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| Insect AI 2: Implementation Strategies | |
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| Intelligent Steering Using Adaptive PID Controllers | |
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| Fast, Neat, and Under Control: Arbitrating Between Steering Behaviors | |
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| Real-Time Crowd Simulation Using AI.implant | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Flexible Object-Composition Architecture | |
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| A Goal-Based, Multitasking Agent Architecture | |
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| Orwellian State Machines | |
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| A Flexible AI System through Behavior Compositing | |
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| Goal Trees | |
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| A Unified Architecture for Goal Planning and Navigation | |
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| Prioritizing Actions in a Goal-Based RTS AI | |
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| Extending Simple Weighted-Sum Systems | |
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| AI Waterfall: Populating Large Worlds Using Limited Resources | |
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| An Introduction to Behavior-Based Systems for Games | |
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| Simulating a Plan | |
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| Tactics and Planning | |
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| Probabilistic Target Tracking and Search Using Occupancy Maps | |
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| Dynamic Tactical Position Evaluation | |
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| Finding Cover in Dynamic Environments | |
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| Coordinating Teams of Bots with Hierarchical Task Network Planning | |
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| Genre Specific | |
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| Training Digital Monsters to Fight in the Real World | |
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| The Suffering: Game AI Lessons Learned | |
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| Environmental Awareness in Game Agents | |
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| Fast and Accurate Gesture Recognition for Character Control | |
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| Being a Better Buddy: Interpreting the Player?s Behavior | |
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| Ant Colony Organization for MMORPG and RTS Creature Resource Gathering | |
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| RTS Citizen Unit AI | |
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| A Combat Flight Simulation AI Framework | |
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| Scripting and Dialog | |
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| Opinion Systems | |
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| An Analysis of Far Cry Instincts? Anchor System | |
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| Creating a Visual Scripting System | |
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| Intelligent Story Direction in the Interactive Drama Architecture | |
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| Learning And Adaptation | |
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| Practical Algorithms for In-Game Learning | |
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| A Brief Comparison of Machine Learning Methods | |
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| Introduction to Hidden Markov Models | |
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| Preference-Based Player Modeling | |
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| Dynamic Scripting | |
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| Encoding Schemes and Fitness Functions for Genetic Algorithms | |
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| A New Look at Learning and Games | |
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| Constructing Adaptive AI Using Knowledge-Based Neuroevolution | |
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| About the CD-ROM | |
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| Index | |