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Intelligent Agent for Medium-Level Artifical

Intelligence in Real Time Strategy GamesAn introduction

Project Members

• Muhamad Abdelmonem• Islam Farid Hamed• Magdy Medhat Muhamad• Muhamad Hesham

Supervisors

• Prof.Dr Mostafa Aref• Dr. Ibrahim Fathi

Agenda

• Problem Domain.• Problem Definition.• Objectives & Motivations.• Survey.• Approaches.• Development Environment.• Expected Deliverables & Testing.• Project Time Plan.

Problem Domain

Real-Time Strategy Games.

RTS Games

Problem Definition

High-LevelMacro-management

Problem Definition

Low-LevelMicro-management

Problem Definition

There is a gapbetween high-level and low-level management

Problem Definition

RTS Expert Players

Expert RTS play is as deeply skillful as expert chess play

Problem Definition

Medium-Level AIacts as the bridge between the high-level and low-level AI

Objectives

Human Player in Reasoning and Planning

MimicOur B

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Objective

RTS AI Research Objective

Objectives

Our Big Objective

Sub-Objectives

Medium-Level AI

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Motivations

In RTS Games

Interested

Active ResearchPapers are from 2003 to 2010.

Motivations

Battle Training Programs & Autonomous Weapon Systems.

War Simulation

Motivations

War SimulationBattle Training Programs & Autonomous Weapon Systems.

This work was supported by the Advanced Research Project Agency

of the Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research.

Motivations

Survey

Previous WorkAdaptive Intelligent Agent in RTS Games

Survey

Latest ResearchExpressive Intelligence Studio

Survey

Reference Book“AI Game Engine Programming” talks about the AI in RTS

Games and areas of enhancement

AI Hierarchy in RTS Games

Approaches

Case-Based PlanningThe idea of planning as remembering

Approaches

Reinforcement-LearningA Machine Learning Technique

RTS Starter KitBundled with Torque Game Engine

Proposed Test-bed

Starcraft: BroodwarInteraction using BWAPI project

Proposed Test-bed

StargusOpen-Source Starcaft based on Stratagus Game Engine

Proposed Test-bed

WargusOpen-Source Warcraft2 based on Stratagus Game Engine

Selected Test-bed

•C++•Stratagus Game Engine•Visual Studio 2008•Tortoise SVN

Development Tools

Expected Output

Enhanced AI EngineThat implements medium-level AI

Testing

Judging by RTS expertsSimply, geeks rule

Testing

Agent Mind VisualizationJudging agent behavior

Project Time Plan

References[1] Ibrahim Moawad, Mostafa Aref, Omar Enayet, and Abdelrahman Al-Ogail, 2010 . Intelligent Online Case Based Plannig Agent Model for RTS Games. In Proceedings of ISDA.

[2] Josh MaCoy and Michael Mateas. 2008. An Integrated Agent for Playing Real-Time Strategy Games by. In Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence.

[3] Martin Johansen Gunnerud. 2009. A CBR/RL system for learning micromanagement in real-time strategy games. In Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

[4] Brian Schwab. 2009. AI Game Engine Programming Book, 2nd edition.

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