Presentation that we present to Timeline Interactive

1. Adaptive Intelligent agent in real-time strategy games An Introduction

2. Project Members Omar Enayet Ahmed Atta Abdelrahman Al-Ogail AmrSaqr Dr. MostafaAref Dr. Ibrahim Fathy

3. Why This Meeting? Sponsoring us in MIE competition. Get feedback from business wise industry. Get into business: Production of a commercial AI Engine for RTS Games. Embedding the developed AI in a commercial game.

5. Problem Definition Static Scripts Computer AI relies completely on static scripting techniques.

6. Problem Definition Experience Loss The Absence of sharing experience costs a lot.

7. Project Challenges Predictability Computer Opponent actions easily predicted.

8. Project Challenges Non-Adaptability Computer Opponent doesn’t adapt to changes in human actions.

9. Project Challenges - Details Resource management. Recognize current situation. City building. Reconnaissance. Learning AI opponent gets in the same trap repeatedly Know safe map locations and get away from kill zones

10. Project Challenges - Details More strategies less tactics. Construct consistent army (solders, tanks, planes). Think about reinforcements. How to retreat. Setup and detect ambushes.

11. Project Challenges - Details Opponent Modeling : Know how human player attacks and which units he favors Does the player rushes ? Does the player rely on units that require certain resources? Does he frequently build a number of critical structures in a poorly defensive place? Are his attacks balanced? ( rock, paper, scissors example)

12. Motivations Interested In Machine Learning

13. Motivations Interested In RTS Games

14. Motivations Meets Our Career Ambitions as AI Programmers

15. Objectives Adaptive A.I. Making the Computer Opponent adapt to changes like human do.

16. Objectives Mobile Experience Making Sharing Experience Possible Among Machines

17. Platform – Not Chosen ORTS An Open-Source RTS Game

18. Platform – Not Chosen Wargus An Open-Source RTS Game based in Stratagus Game Engine

19. Platform – The Chosen One BosWars An Open-Source RTS Game based in Stratagus Game Engine

20. Survey Alex Champandard Eric Kok Asking Experts Alex Champandard, Eric Kok and more.

21. Survey Reference Book The Book “AI Game Engine Programming” talks about the drawbacks in learning and planning in RTS Games.

23. Case-based planning and execution for real-time strategy games.

24. Transfer Learning in Real-Time Strategy Games Using Hybrid CBR/RLRecent Papers We Collected more than 30 papers concerning this field, different in their way of approaching the problem and the techniques used to solve the problem. Examples of them are above ^

25. Approaches - Techniques Reinforcement Learning A Sub-Science of Machine Learning.

26. Approaches - Techniques Case-Based Planning Planning using Case-based reasoning.

27. Approaches - Techniques BDI Agents Tech. Beliefs-Desires-Intentions Agents.

28. Techniques - Summary Reinforcement Learning Case-Based Planning BDI-Agent Tech.

29. Approaches - Languages C++ The Main Language our Open Source Game is coded with.

30. Approaches - Languages 2APL An Agent-Oriented Language.

31. Approaches - Languages LUA A Scripting Language widely used in Video-Games.

32. AI Engine Architecture

33. Project Time Plan

34. Expected Deliverables Enhanced AI Engine An AI Engine which makes the computer behavior in the game as human as possible.

35. Expected Deliverables Experimental Results Comparison of the results of the enhanced AI Engine with ordinary static AI.

36. Development Tools Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 2APL Environment C++ Libraries : Boost, Guichan ..etc.

37. Project Blog : http://rtsairesearch.wordpress.com/ SVN Repository : https://mzrtaiengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ Web Resources