UCT for Games and Beyond
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bradford
Department Name: School of Computing, Informatics & Media
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Peter Cowling (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Browne C
(2012)
A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods
in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Cowling P
(2015)
Emergent bluffing and inference with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Cowling P
(2012)
Ensemble Determinization in Monte Carlo Tree Search for the Imperfect Information Card Game Magic: The Gathering
in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Powley E
(2014)
Information capture and reuse strategies in Monte Carlo Tree Search, with applications to games of hidden information
in Artificial Intelligence
Cowling P
(2012)
Information Set Monte Carlo Tree Search
in IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Sephton N
(2014)
Parallelization of Information Set Monte Carlo Tree Search
| Description | These have all been reported in "UCT for Games and Beyond" EP/H049061/2 |
| Exploitation Route | These have all been reported in "UCT for Games and Beyond" EP/H049061/2 |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Description | These have all been reported in "UCT for Games and Beyond" EP/H049061/2. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Description | AI Factory Collaboration |
| Organisation | AI Factory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Our decision-making AI technology has been used directly in AI factory's mobile games - and has been downloaded over 5 million times, propelling their implementation of the card game "Spades" to number 1 in the Android charts. |
| Collaborator Contribution | AI Factory provided access to the game's source code, integrated the AI and deployed it in their Spades game. Since deployment they have collected and shared with us a large amount of gameplay data that has been of great use in future research. |
| Impact | The AI we developed helped their implementation of the card game "Spades" reach number 1 in the Google Play Store (Android) charts. Peter Cowling and Jeff Rollason gave a joint Keynote at the world's leading Game Developers Conference in 2014 - and a number of papers were co-published with Jeff Rollason. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Title | mcts.ai |
| Description | Library for Monte Carlo Tree Search |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Work with AI Factory and used in |
| Description | Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research - Article for the Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article written for The Conversation by Peter Cowling and Sam Devlin, explaining the impact of Google Deep Mind's success in developing AI to beat the European Go Champion - with strong links to their own research in AI. The article has been republished many times and shared with more than 200 social media shares. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/googles-go-triumph-is-a-milestone-for-artificial-intelligence-research-5... |
| Description | Let us Play: Artificial and Human Intelligence in Games |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public engagement talk on AI and HCI research in Games |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Monte Carlo Tree Search Tutorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited tutorial at the IEEE Computational Intelligence in Games conference (IEEE CIG 2012) on the algorithms researched as part of the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Monte Carlo Tree Search for Card and Board Games |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Vienna Game AI Conference held by AIGameDev.com |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Peter Cowling attended UKIE Westminster reception (with Matt Hancock MP and others) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to a UKIE-hosted reception at Westminster - providing an opportunity to talk about our research to people at Westminster including Noirin Carmody (chair of UKIE), Lynne Kilpatrick (civil servant - Head of Video Games and Creative Industries Skills) and many from the games industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://ukie.org.uk/event/2017/10/16/westminster-games-industry-day |
| Description | Peter Cowling contributed to Dagstuhl Seminar with leading international experts on "AI-Driven Games Design" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop bringing together 30 of the world's leading researchers in AI-Driven game design - to set the agenda for research in this area for the coming decade. I polled 100 industry partners and took along the best research questions coming from that poll. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=17471 |
| Description | Rolling the Dice: Leveraging Monte Carlo Tree Search in Game AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk on the research outputs of the project at the largest industry conference in the area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://schedule2014.gdconf.com/session-id/828005 |