PREDICTING PERFORMANCE IN TEAM GAMES - The Automatic Coach

Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz, Héctor D. Menéndez, David Camacho, Pedro A. González-Calero

2011

Abstract

A wide range of modern videogames involves a number of players collaborating to obtain a common goal. The way the players are teamed up is usually based on a measure of performance that makes players with a similar level of performance play together. We propose a novel technique based on clustering over observed behaviour in the game that seeks to exploit the particular way of playing of every player to find other players with a gameplay such that in combination will constitute a good team, in a similar way to a human coach. This paper describes the preliminary results using these techniques for the characterization of player and team behaviours. Experiments are performed in the domain of Soccerbots.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jiménez-Díaz G., D. Menéndez H., Camacho D. and A. González-Calero P. (2011). PREDICTING PERFORMANCE IN TEAM GAMES - The Automatic Coach . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 401-406. DOI: 10.5220/0003185104010406

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz and Héctor D. Menéndez and David Camacho and Pedro A. González-Calero},
title={PREDICTING PERFORMANCE IN TEAM GAMES - The Automatic Coach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={401-406},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003185104010406},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - PREDICTING PERFORMANCE IN TEAM GAMES - The Automatic Coach
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Jiménez-Díaz G.
AU - D. Menéndez H.
AU - Camacho D.
AU - A. González-Calero P.
PY - 2011
SP - 401
EP - 406
DO - 10.5220/0003185104010406