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Current Research Interests Real-Time Strategy Game Combat AI - SparCraft Real-Time Strategy Game Combat is a difficult area to apply traditional search or learning algorithms due to its extremely large state and action spaces and harsh real-time computational constraints. We have created SparCraft, an open source StarCraft combat simulator which comes packaged with several search algorithms for RTS Combat, including Alpha-Beta, UCT, and a new algorithm called Portfolio Greedy Search.
Real-Time Strategy Game Build Order Planning To win an RTS game you need an army, and to build an army efficiently and quickly you need a good build order. Our research in build order optimizatio has resulted in the first build order planning system capable of finding build orders in real-time under harsh tournament settings. All of the build orders in UAlbertaBot are planned in real time with this system with no hard coded build orders whatsoever.
StarCraft AI Competitions Since 2011 I have organized and competed in the AIIDE StarCraft AI Competition. For information please see the competition website. |