I have very often seen posted here requests for ideas on how to use Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Programming, Evolution Strategies) in games. I just received a notification that the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines has a special issue on Evolutionary Computation in Games. Here's the link to the journal: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Here's the link to the special issue: Evolutionary Computation in Games Note that it is a technical journal (academic research, mostly) and the articles are not free. You can most likely get them through a university library or through interlibrary loan. I hope it is useful. -Kirk [Edited by - kirkd on October 9, 2008 10:37:40 AM]

Can someone lend me $35 to read these articles? I might evolve into someone wealthy and pay it back!

I'm always amazed at how little effort people will expend.


I couldn't find this paper, but here's the author's web page with numerous other publications and presentations available:

Evolving strategy for a probabilistic game of imperfect information using genetic programming
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/wjaskowski/#


Again, I couldn't find the specific paper, but on the author's web page it looks like neuroevolution as applied to games is his main focus. In particular, racing car controllers:

http://julian.togelius.com/

Plus, here's a link to the competition which is the subject of the paper itself:

http://julian.togelius.com/cec2007competition/


This paper was available online:

Coevolutionary bid-based genetic programming for problem decomposition in classification
http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~piotr/gpem2008.pdf


There are two book reviews in the special issue, here's a direct link to one of the book's web pages with tons of information about the book itself.
http://www.computelligence.org/issue/CICI/CICI.html


Among these links are numerous applications of evolutionary computation in games that extend beyond the 3 articles in the special issue I posted. I would say from this you owe me about $105.



[Edited by - kirkd on October 9, 2008 11:36:56 AM]

Very nice link, though one or two of the articles are a little light on actual content. My university provides free access, luckily :)

Swiftcoder,

I'm glad you find them useful. Check out the additional links I just provided. I'll bet you'll find much, much more content there.

-Kirk