%0 Conference Paper %1 spector:2001:vqacpapsa %A Spector, Lee %A Moore, Ryan %A Robinson, Alan %B 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Late Breaking Papers %C San Francisco, California, USA %D 2001 %E Goodman, Erik D. %K Quidditch algorithms, faster genetic harry j.k.rowling, potter programming, real simulator than time %P 384--389 %T Virtual Quidditch: A Challenge Problem for Automatically Programmed Software Agents %U http://hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/quidditch-cite.pdf %X a new challenge problem for the automatic programming of software agents, a virtual version of the quidditch game invented by J. K. Rowling in her best-selling Harry Potter books (Rowling and Grandpre, 1998; Rowling and Whisp, 2001). Good performance in this game requires adaptive control in a complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic 3-dimensional environment. we briefly describe virtual quidditch and the challenges that it presents. A quidditch simulator environment is currently being developed; when it is complete it will be made publicly available. artificial ant and food foraging problems (Bennett, 1996; Bongard, 2000), simulated robotic soccer (Andre and Teller, 1999; Luke, 1998; Salustowicz, Wiering, and Schmidhuber, 1997), high-fidelity flight simulators (Cribbs, 1999), and other dynamic environments.

@inproceedings{spector:2001:vqacpapsa, abstract = {a new challenge problem for the automatic programming of software agents, a virtual version of the quidditch game invented by J. K. Rowling in her best-selling Harry Potter books (Rowling and Grandpre, 1998; Rowling and Whisp, 2001). Good performance in this game requires adaptive control in a complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic 3-dimensional environment. we briefly describe virtual quidditch and the challenges that it presents. A quidditch simulator environment is currently being developed; when it is complete it will be made publicly available. artificial ant and food foraging problems (Bennett, 1996; Bongard, 2000), simulated robotic soccer (Andre and Teller, 1999; Luke, 1998; Salustowicz, Wiering, and Schmidhuber, 1997), high-fidelity flight simulators (Cribbs, 1999), and other dynamic environments.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:46:40.000+0200}, address = {San Francisco, California, USA}, author = {Spector, Lee and Moore, Ryan and Robinson, Alan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22d973dc85767b3e0533701771742ed25/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Late Breaking Papers}, editor = {Goodman, Erik D.}, interhash = {29416b5e113271f5a6ffbebd71b8278d}, intrahash = {2d973dc85767b3e0533701771742ed25}, keywords = {Quidditch algorithms, faster genetic harry j.k.rowling, potter programming, real simulator than time}, month = {9-11 July}, notes = {GECCO-2001LB. public domain _when_ completed. See also \cite{crawford-marks:2004:ascribe}, \cite{crawford-marks:2004:senior}, http://alum.hampshire.edu/~rpc01/vww.html}, pages = {384--389}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:52:07.000+0200}, title = {Virtual Quidditch: {A} Challenge Problem for Automatically Programmed Software Agents}, url = {http://hampshire.edu/lspector/pubs/quidditch-cite.pdf}, year = 2001 }