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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Spring 2024 CS 4900/5900 – Game AI (Artificial Intelligence in Games)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Instructor: Dr. Chang Liu (<a href="mailto:liuc@ohio.edu">liuc@ohio.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Credits: 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Class Meetings: Tu/Th 5:00pm-6:20pm @ ARC 314
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Course Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">A course that focuses on computational intelligence for computer video games. Topics include classical Markov decision processes, Monte Carlo tree search, tabular
reinforcement learning methods, and reinforcement learning with deep neural networks. All students will participate in simulated game AI competitions using the MicroRTS platform (<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FFarama-Foundation%2FMicroRTS&data=05%7C01%7Ceecs_mscs%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C26ac87641e4d4df3fc8f08dbe067d248%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638350508754142508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Eb0TauZ5lIHNMi8Xj2SkKmI5cjn6WDp%2FreWuZlbX2c0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/MicroRTS" shash="itq2TGCw1Prpvh3kfg+9TrkskHmIXEuGS6hKT/wkB6mIUu94EHsrrH0UIMA1D0JcQdOusTjnBlla2q3Y62aPobDhHLbHFIosxedNypPEPLMXuKYd+25b3r7kAVYbqfa0OCD/ra52BM0SidOldXnXvjmow5aVJlXRXqnjhDJ1Ujc=">https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/MicroRTS</a>)
or StarCraft II. Students will be encouraged to compete in the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) competition of game AI (<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2024.ieee-cog.org%2Fcompetitions%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ceecs_mscs%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C26ac87641e4d4df3fc8f08dbe067d248%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638350508754142508%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D0%2BafFBSLgC3dtYU1NuwJKm7GjjXJ8Hz7NnJQ1kP2Rc%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://2024.ieee-cog.org/competitions/" shash="ZE4mNM8JNwCJFl+IBh0CiKwup7hI87k25DrQHwXiyHzUn/XC72wnxSF7yOautPcWUQjkuJbQ/7jgIzMQlmB2O+gWWESiFozBwbFEkXCriACsQIEcSySTBfrjrH9PAngDkbb8BCQQtBk3NNOV7ggLWviXFu2Aqs99FC6QgOO1AtM=">https://2024.ieee-cog.org/competitions/</a>)
based on what they develop as part of their class activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">This course helps student accomplish the following objectives:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">• Understand current challenges in computer game AI;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">• Learn classic and state-of-the-art AI algorithms for game agents;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">• Run hands-on experiments on simulated computer game tournaments;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">• Develop a report on the research and development of game AI in this class;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">• Identify potential topics for a potential HTC/M.Sc./Ph.D. degree project, thesis, or dissertation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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