Miss Raluca Gaina

Teaching

Artificial Intelligence in Games (Postgraduate)

This module covers a range of Artificial Intelligence techniques employed in games, and teaches how games are and can be used for research in Artificial Intelligence. This module has a strong programming component. The module explores algorithms for creating agents that play classical board games (such as chess or checkers) and real-time games (Mario or PacMan), including single agents able to play multiple games. The module gives an overview of multiple techniques, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search, Evolutionary Computation, Deep and Machine Learning applied to games.

Research

Research Interests:

Publications

• Gaina RD, Devlin S, Lucas SM et al. (2021). Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TG.2021.3060282

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/71287
• Perez-Liebana D, Alam MS, Gaina RD (2020). Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game Playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231606

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/65401
• Gaina RD, Perez-Liebana D, Lucas SM et al. (2020). Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231587

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/65400
• Montoliu R, Gaina RD, Pérez-Liebana D et al. (2020). Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game. International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43722-0_26

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/65282
• Perez-Liebana D, Hsu YJ, Emmanouilidis S et al. (2020). Tribes: A new turn-based strategy game for AI research. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/aiide.v16i1.7438

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Liébana DPXR, Lucas SM, Gaina RD et al. (2019). General Video Game Artificial Intelligence. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.2200/s00944ed1v01y201908gci005

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• GAINA RALUCA, Stephenson M (2019). 'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio Cues. IEEE Conference on Games (COG)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848088

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61746
• Lucas S, Dockhorn A, Volz V et al. (2019). A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game. IEEE Conference on Games (COG)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848002

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61748
• Dockhorn A, Lucas S, Volz V et al. (2019). Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games. IEEE Conference on Games (COG)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848044

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61745
• Drageset O, GAINA RALUCA, Perez-Liebana D et al. (2019). Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AI. IEEE Conference on Games (COG)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8847961

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61742
• GAINA RALUCA, Lucas S, Perez-Liebana D (2019). Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer. IEEE Conference on Games (COG)

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848047

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61794
• Perez D, Liu J, Abdel Samea Khalifa A et al. (2019). General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games and Content Generation Algorithms. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/tg.2019.2901021

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59616
• Lucas S, Liu J, Bravi I et al. (2019). Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best. Game Simulations Workshop (AAAI)

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Perez-Liebana D, Gaina RD, Drageset O et al. (2019). Analysis of statistical forward planning methods in pommerman. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/aiide.v15i1.5226

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61628
• Gaina RD, Lucas SM, Pérez-Liébana D (2019). Tackling sparse rewards in real-time games with statistical forward planning methods. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011691

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/55132
• Gaina RD, Lucas SM, Perez-Liebana D (2018). General Win Prediction from Agent Experience. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2018.8490439

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59584
• Sironi CF, Liu J, Perez-Liebana D et al. (2018). Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77538-8_25

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/42663
• Gaina RD, Lucas SM, Pérez-Liébana D (2018). Vertigø: Visualisation of rolling horizon evolutionary algorithms in GVGAI. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1609/aiide.v14i1.13011

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gaina RD, Volkovas R, Diaz CG et al. (2017). Automatic game tuning for strategic diversity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEEC.2017.8101624

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59585
• Gaina RD, Couetoux A, Soemers D et al. (2017). The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2017.2771241

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/32288
• Perez-Liebana D, Stephenson M, Gaina RD et al. (2017). Introducing real world physics and macro-actions to general video game ai. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2017.8080443

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gaina RD, Lucas SM, Perez-Liebana D (2017). Rolling horizon evolution enhancements in general video game playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2017.8080420

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Gaina RD, Lucas SM, Perez-Liebana D (2017). Population seeding techniques for Rolling Horizon Evolution in General Video Game Playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2017.7969540

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Kunanusont K, Gaina RD, Liu J et al. (2017). The N-Tuple bandit evolutionary algorithm for automatic game improvement. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2017.7969571

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54629
• Gaina RD, Pérez-Liébana D, Lucas SM (2017). General video game for 2 players: Framework and competition. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEEC.2016.7835911

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59597
• Gaina RD, Liu J, Lucas SM et al. (2017). Analysis of vanilla rolling Horizon evolution parameters in general video game playing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55849-3_28

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59596