Winning Ant Wars: Evolving a human-competitive game strategy using fitnessless selection

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We tell the story of BrilliAnt, the winner of the Ant Wars contest organized within GECCO'2007, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. The task for the Ant Wars contestants was to evolve a controller for a virtual ant that collects food in a square toroidal grid environment in the presence of a competing ant. BrilliAnt, submitted to the contest by our team, has been evolved through competitive one-population coevolution using genetic programming and a novel fitnessless selection method. In the paper, we detail the evolutionary setup that lead to BrilliAnt's emergence, assess its human-competitiveness, and describe selected behavioral patterns observed in its strategy. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Jaśkowski, W., Krawiec, K., & Wieloch, B. (2008). Winning Ant Wars: Evolving a human-competitive game strategy using fitnessless selection. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4971 LNCS, pp. 13–24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78671-9_2

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