Computer games are most engaging when their difficulty is well matched to the player’s ability, thereby providing an experience in which the player is neither overwhelmed nor bored. In games where the player interacts with computer-controlled opponents, the difficulty of the game can be adjusted not only by changing the distribution of opponents or game resources, but also through modifying the...

This report describes an approach used in the competition “Chess Ratings – Elo versus the Rest of the World” that took place between August and November 2010. Using the Bradley-Terry model as starting point, we postulate that the strength of each player can be approximated by the expected score against a common but unknown reference player, whose strength is never actually computed. This approa...

Artificially intelligent opponents in commercial computer games are almost exclusively controlled by manuallydesigned scripts. With increasing game complexity, the scripts tend to become quite complex too. As a consequence they often contain “holes” that can be exploited by the human player. The research question addressed in this paper reads: How can evolutionary learning techniques be applied...

Artificially intelligent opponents in virtual world computer games are almost exclusively controlled by manually-designed scripts. With increasing game complexity, the scripts tend to become quite complex too. As a consequence they often contain “holes” that can be exploited by the human player. The research question addressed in this paper reads: How can machine learning be used to improve the...

Обсуждается вопрос о возможности считать формами познания не только науку, но и религию искусство. Представляется, что в силу многомерности каждой из указанных сфер культуры вполне можно аспекте любой них рассматривать другие. В свою очередь, на примере античной гармоники обсуждается том, все-таки специфицирует науку как таковую. Здесь явно представлены признаки, которые выделялись ходе дискусс...