Yavalath: Sample Chapter from Evolutionary Game Design

Yavalath: Sample Chapter from Evolutionary Game Design

The following chapter from Evolutionary Game Design (Browne 2011) describes Yavalath, the first computer-generated board game to be commercially published. LUDI is a software system that creates new combinatorial games by evolving the rule sets of known games into new combinations, then testing them for playability and quality. It was developed as a proof-of-concept for my 2008 PhD thesis Autom...

Chapter 5: TIMSS 2007 Sample Design

5.1 Overview this chapter describes the tiMSS 2007 sample design, which consists of a set of specifications for the target and survey populations, sampling frames, survey units, sample selection methods, sampling precision, and sample sizes. the sample design is intended to ensure that the tiMSS 2007 survey data provide accurate and efficient estimates of national student populations. Since mea...

Sample Path Large Deviations for Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics

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Chapter 1 An Introduction to Evolutionary Design by Computers

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