Simon M. Lucas

245 papers A* 3A 24B 41C 23Misc 2Journal 81Unranked 64

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Adapter-RL: Adaptation of Any Agent Using Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Trans. Games Yizhao Jin, Gregory G. Slabaugh, Simon M. Lucas
2025	J	`jnl`	CSP4SDG: Constraint and Information-Theory Based Role Identification in Social Deduction Games with LLM-Enhanced Inference. CoRR Kaijie Xu, Fandi Meng, Clark Verbrugge, Simon M. Lucas
2025	C	`conf`	Cluedo AI: Applying Constraint-Solving Methods to Play the Multi-Player Deduction Game Cluedo. FDG Fandi Meng, Simon M. Lucas
2025	C	`conf`	Constraint Propagation for Reasoning in Single-Player Deduction Games. CoG Fandi Meng, Kaijie Xu, Simon M. Lucas
2025	C	`conf`	JSON-Bag: A Generic Game Trajectory Representation. CoG Dien Nguyen, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2025	J	`jnl`	JSON-Bag: A generic game trajectory representation. CoRR Dien Nguyen, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2025	J	`jnl`	Partial Advantage Estimator for Proximal Policy Optimization. IEEE Trans. Games Yizhao Jin, Xiulei Song, Gregory G. Slabaugh, Simon M. Lucas
2025	C	`conf`	Play Style Identification Using Low-Level Representations of Play Traces in Microrts. CoG Ruizhe Yu Xia, Jeremy Gow, Simon M. Lucas
2025	J	`jnl`	Seeding for Success: Skill and Stochasticity in Tabletop Games. CoRR James Goodman, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2024	C	`conf`	Deduction Game Framework and Information Set Entropy Search. CoG Fandi Meng, Simon M. Lucas
2024	J	`jnl`	From Code to Play: Benchmarking Program Search for Games Using Large Language Models. CoRR Manuel Eberhardinger, James Goodman, Alexander Dockhorn, Diego Perez Liebana, Raluca D. Gaina, Duygu Çakmak, Setareh Maghsudi, Simon M. Lucas
2024	C	`conf`	Measuring Randomness in Tabletop Games. CoG James Goodman, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2024	C	`conf`	Skill Depth in Tabletop Board Games. CoG James Goodman, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2023	J	`jnl`	ADAPTER-RL: Adaptation of Any Agent using Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Yizhao Jin, Greg G. Slabaugh, Simon M. Lucas
2023	J	`jnl`	Beyond Playing to Win: Creating a Team of Agents With Distinct Behaviors for Automated Gameplay. IEEE Trans. Games Cristina Guerrero-Romero, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2023	J	`jnl`	Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition. IEEE Trans. Games Zhentao Tang, Yuanheng Zhu, Dongbin Zhao, Simon M. Lucas
2023	C	`conf`	Following the Leader in Multiplayer Tabletop Games. FDG James Goodman, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2023	J	`jnl`	Rinascimento: Playing Splendor-Like Games With Event-Value Functions. IEEE Trans. Games Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas
2022	J	`jnl`	Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing. IEEE Trans. Games Raluca D. Gaina, Sam Devlin, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2021	J	`jnl`	Predictive Control Using Learned State Space Models via Rolling Horizon Evolution. CoRR Alvaro Ovalle, Simon M. Lucas
2021	J	`jnl`	Rinascimento: searching the behaviour space of Splendor. CoRR Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas
2020	C	`conf`	Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL. CoG Alvaro Ovalle, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Bootstrapped model learning and error correction for planning with uncertainty in model-based RL. CoRR Alvaro Ovalle, Simon M. Lucas
2020	C	`conf`	Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin. CoG Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Cross-Platform Games in Kotlin. CoRR Simon M. Lucas
2020	B	`conf`	Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game. EvoApplications Raúl Montoliu, Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Pérez-Liébana, Daniel Delgado, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm with Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition. CoRR Zhentao Tang, Yuanheng Zhu, Dongbin Zhao, Simon M. Lucas
2020	C	`conf`	Evaluating Generalisation in General Video Game Playing. CoG Martin Balla, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2020	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Generalisation in General Video Game Playing. CoRR Martin Balla, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2020	J	`jnl`	Griddly: A platform for AI research in games. CoRR Chris Bamford, Shengyi Huang, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Interactive Evolution and Exploration Within Latent Level-Design Space of Generative Adversarial Networks. CoRR Jacob Schrum, Jake Gutierrez, Vanessa Volz, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Sebastian Risi
2020	A	`conf`	Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks. GECCO Jacob Schrum, Jake Gutierrez, Vanessa Volz, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Sebastian Risi
2020	C	`conf`	Local Forward Model Learning for GVGAI Games. CoG Alexander Dockhorn, Simon M. Lucas
2020	—	`conf`	Modulation of Viability Signals for Self-regulatory Control. IWAI Alvaro Ovalle, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Modulation of viability signals for self-regulatory control. CoRR Alvaro Ovalle, Simon M. Lucas
2020	C	`conf`	Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning of generalizable forward models from pixels. CoG Chris Bamford, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Neural Game Engine: Accurate learning ofgeneralizable forward models from pixels. CoRR Chris Bamford, Simon M. Lucas
2020	C	`conf`	Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor. CoG Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Rinascimento: using event-value functions for playing Splendor. CoRR Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas
2020	J	`jnl`	Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing. CoRR Raluca D. Gaina, Sam Devlin, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2020	C	`conf`	Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing. CoG Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Chiara F. Sironi, Mark H. M. Winands
2019	C	`conf`	A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game. CoG Simon M. Lucas, Alexander Dockhorn, Vanessa Volz, Chris Bamford, Raluca D. Gaina, Ivan Bravi, Diego Pérez-Liébana, Sanaz Mostaghim, Rudolf Kruse
2019	J	`jnl`	A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Alexander Dockhorn, Vanessa Volz, Chris Bamford, Raluca D. Gaina, Ivan Bravi, Diego Pérez-Liébana, Sanaz Mostaghim, Rudolf Kruse
2019	J	`jnl`	A Survey of Statistical Machine Learning Elements in Genetic Programming. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Alexandros Agapitos, Róisín Loughran, Miguel Nicolau, Simon M. Lucas, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon
2019	—	`conf`	Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman. AIIDE Diego Perez Liebana, Raluca D. Gaina, Olve Drageset, Ercüment Ilhan, Martin Balla, Simon M. Lucas
2019	J	`jnl`	Deep Reinforcement Learning and Games [Guest Editorial]. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag. Dongbin Zhao, Simon M. Lucas, Julian Togelius
2019	J	`jnl`	Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, John R. Woodward, Vanessa Volz, Diego Perez Liebana
2019	—	`conf`	Extracting Learning Curves From Puzzle Games. CEEC Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019	J	`jnl`	Foundations of Digital Archæoludology. CoRR Cameron Browne, Dennis J. N. J. Soemers, Éric Piette, Matthew Stephenson, Michael Conrad, Walter Crist, Thierry Depaulis, Eddie Duggan, Fred Horn, Steven Kelk, Simon M. Lucas, João Pedro Neto, David Parlett, Abdallah Saffidine, Ulrich Schädler, Jorge Nuno Silva, Alex de Voogt, Mark H. M. Winands
2019	—	`conf`	Game AI hyperparameter tuning in rinascimento. GECCO (Companion) Ivan Bravi, Vanessa Volz, Simon M. Lucas
2019	J	`jnl`	General Video Game AI: A Multitrack Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games, and Content Generation Algorithms. IEEE Trans. Games Diego Pérez-Liébana, Jialin Liu, Ahmed Khalifa, Raluca D. Gaina, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2019	—	`book`	General Video Game Artificial Intelligence Diego Pérez-Liébana, Simon M. Lucas, Raluca D. Gaina, Julian Togelius, Ahmed Khalifa, Jialin Liu
2019	C	`conf`	Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games. CoG Alexander Dockhorn, Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez Liebana
2019	J	`jnl`	Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games. CoRR Alexander Dockhorn, Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez Liebana
2019	C	`conf`	Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games. CoG Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019	J	`jnl`	Mek: Mechanics Prototyping Tool for 2D Tile-Based Turn-Based Deterministic Games. CoRR Rokas Volkovas, Michael Fairbank, John R. Woodward, Simon M. Lucas
2019	C	`conf`	Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer. CoG Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2019	J	`jnl`	Project Thyia: A Forever Gameplayer. CoRR Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2019	C	`conf`	Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor. CoG Ivan Bravi, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu
2019	J	`jnl`	Rinascimento: Optimising Statistical Forward Planning Agents for Playing Splendor. CoRR Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana, Jialin Liu
2019	A*	`conf`	Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning Methods. AAAI Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2019	J	`jnl`	Tile Pattern KL-Divergence for Analysing and Evolving Game Levels. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz
2019	A	`conf`	Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels. GECCO Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz
2019	—	`ch.`	Training Gradient Boosting Machines Using Curve-Fitting and Information-Theoretic Features for Causal Direction Detection. Cause Effect Pairs in Machine Learning Spyridon Samothrakis, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2018	J	`jnl`	Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network. CoRR Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam M. Smith, Sebastian Risi
2018	A	`conf`	Evolving mario levels in the latent space of a deep convolutional generative adversarial network. GECCO Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam M. Smith, Sebastian Risi
2018	—	`conf`	Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2018	J	`jnl`	Game AI Research with Fast Planet Wars Variants. CoRR Simon M. Lucas
2018	J	`jnl`	General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games and Content Generation Algorithms. CoRR Diego Pérez-Liébana, Jialin Liu, Ahmed Khalifa, Raluca D. Gaina, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2018	—	`conf`	General Win Prediction from Agent Experience. CIG Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2018	J	`jnl`	Pac-ManConquers Academia: Two Decades of Research Using a Classic Arcade Game. IEEE Trans. Games Philipp Rohlfshagen, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2018	B	`conf`	Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game Playing. EvoApplications Chiara F. Sironi, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Raluca D. Gaina, Ivan Bravi, Simon M. Lucas, Mark H. M. Winands
2018	—	`conf`	Shallow Decision-Making Analysis in General Video Game Playing. CIG Ivan Bravi, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu
2018	J	`jnl`	Shallow decision-making analysis in General Video Game Playing. CoRR Ivan Bravi, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2018	J	`jnl`	The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI Competition. IEEE Trans. Games Raluca D. Gaina, Adrien Couëtoux, Dennis J. N. J. Soemers, Mark H. M. Winands, Tom Vodopivec, Florian Kirchgeßner, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2018	B	`conf`	The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation. CEC Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2018	J	`jnl`	The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Game Agent Optimisation. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana
2018	—	`conf`	Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing. CIG Cristina Guerrero-Romero, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2018	—	`conf`	VERTIGØ: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAI. AIIDE Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2017	—	`conf`	Analysis of Vanilla Rolling Horizon Evolution Parameters in General Video Game Playing. EvoApplications (1) Raluca D. Gaina, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2017	J	`jnl`	Analysis of Vanilla Rolling Horizon Evolution Parameters in General Video Game Playing. CoRR Raluca D. Gaina, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	B	`conf`	Bandit-based Random Mutation Hill-Climbing. CEC Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	J	`jnl`	Default policies for global optimisation of noisy functions with severe noise. J. Glob. Optim. Spyridon Samothrakis, Maria Fasli, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	J	`jnl`	Efficient Noisy Optimisation with the Sliding Window Compact Genetic Algorithm. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2017	—	`conf`	Efficient noisy optimisation with the multi-sample and sliding window compact genetic algorithms. SSCI Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2017	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Noisy Optimisation Algorithms: First Hitting Time is Problematic. CoRR Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Diego Pérez-Liébana
2017	J	`jnl`	Evaluating and Modelling Hanabi-Playing Agents. CoRR Joseph Walton-Rivers, Piers R. Williams, Richard A. Bartle, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	B	`conf`	Evaluating and modelling Hanabi-playing agents. CEC Joseph Walton-Rivers, Piers R. Williams, Richard A. Bartle, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	J	`jnl`	Evolving Game Skill-Depth using General Video Game AI Agents. CoRR Jialin Liu, Julian Togelius, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	B	`conf`	Evolving Game Skill-Depth using General Video Game AI agents. CEC Jialin Liu, Julian Togelius, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	J	`jnl`	General Video Game AI: Learning from Screen Capture. CoRR Kamolwan Kunanusont, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	B	`conf`	General Video Game AI: Learning from screen capture. CEC Kamolwan Kunanusont, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	J	`jnl`	IEEE CIS VP-Education Vision Statement [Society Briefs]. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag. Simon M. Lucas
2017	—	`conf`	Introducing real world physics and macro-actions to general video game ai. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Matthew Stephenson, Raluca D. Gaina, Jochen Renz, Simon M. Lucas
2017	J	`jnl`	Population Seeding Techniques for Rolling Horizon Evolution in General Video Game Playing. CoRR Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	B	`conf`	Population seeding techniques for Rolling Horizon Evolution in General Video Game Playing. CEC Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	J	`jnl`	Recursion in tree-based genetic programming. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Ahmed Kattan, Simon M. Lucas
2017	—	`conf`	Rolling horizon evolution enhancements in general video game playing. CIG Raluca D. Gaina, Simon M. Lucas, Diego Perez Liebana
2017	J	`jnl`	The N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatic Game Improvement. CoRR Kamolwan Kunanusont, Raluca D. Gaina, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2017	B	`conf`	The N-Tuple bandit evolutionary algorithm for automatic game improvement. CEC Kamolwan Kunanusont, Raluca D. Gaina, Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	—	`conf`	Analyzing the robustness of general video game playing agents. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Julian Togelius, Tom Schaul, Simon M. Lucas
2016	J	`jnl`	Bandit-Based Random Mutation Hill-Climbing. CoRR Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	A*	`conf`	General Video Game AI: Competition, Challenges and Opportunities. AAAI Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Julian Togelius, Tom Schaul, Simon M. Lucas
2016	A	`conf`	General Video Game Level Generation. GECCO Ahmed Khalifa, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Julian Togelius
2016	—	`conf`	General Video Game for 2 players: Framework and competition. CEEC Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	J	`jnl`	Ms. Pac-Man Versus Ghost Team CIG 2016 Competition. CoRR Piers R. Williams, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	—	`conf`	Ms. Pac-Man Versus Ghost Team CIG 2016 competition. CIG Piers R. Williams, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	B	`conf`	Multi-objective tree search approaches for general video game playing. CEC Diego Perez Liebana, Sanaz Mostaghim, Simon M. Lucas
2016	J	`jnl`	Optimal resampling for the noisy OneMax problem. CoRR Jialin Liu, Michael Fairbank, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	J	`jnl`	Predicting Dominance Rankings for Score-Based Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Spyridon Samothrakis, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Philipp Rohlfshagen
2016	J	`jnl`	Rolling Horizon Coevolutionary Planning for Two-Player Video Games. CoRR Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	—	`conf`	Rolling Horizon Coevolutionary planning for two-player video games. CEEC Jialin Liu, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2016	J	`jnl`	The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Julian Togelius, Tom Schaul, Simon M. Lucas, Adrien Couëtoux, Jerry Lee, Chong-U Lim, Tommy Thompson
2015	J	`jnl`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games: Integration (Dagstuhl Seminar 15051). Dagstuhl Reports Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2015	J	`jnl`	Multiobjective Monte Carlo Tree Search for Real-Time Games. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Diego Perez Liebana, Sanaz Mostaghim, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas
2015	—	`conf`	Neuroevolution for General Video Game Playing. CIG Spyridon Samothrakis, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas, Maria Fasli
2015	—	`conf`	On imitating Connect-4 game trajectories using an approximate n-tuple evaluation function. CIG Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas
2015	A	`conf`	Open Loop Search for General Video Game Playing. GECCO Diego Perez Liebana, Jens Dieskau, Martin Hunermund, Sanaz Mostaghim, Simon M. Lucas
2014	J	`jnl`	Automated Map Generation for the Physical Traveling Salesman Problem. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Diego Perez Liebana, Julian Togelius, Spyridon Samothrakis, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2014	B	`conf`	Fast Evolutionary Adaptation for Monte Carlo Tree Search. EvoApplications Simon M. Lucas, Spyridon Samothrakis, Diego Perez Liebana
2014	—	`conf`	Knowledge-based fast evolutionary MCTS for general video game playing. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas
2014	J	`jnl`	Preference Learning for Move Prediction and Evaluation Function Approximation in Othello. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas
2014	—	`conf`	Rolling horizon methods for games with continuous states and actions. CIG Spyridon Samothrakis, Samuel A. Roberts, Diego Perez Liebana, Simon M. Lucas
2014	J	`jnl`	Solving the Physical Traveling Salesman Problem: Tree Search and Macro Actions. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Diego Perez Liebana, Edward Jack Powley, Daniel Whitehouse, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Spyridon Samothrakis, Peter I. Cowling, Simon M. Lucas
2014	B	`conf`	The 2013 Multi-objective Physical Travelling Salesman Problem Competition. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Diego Perez Liebana, Edward Jack Powley, Daniel Whitehouse, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling
2013	—	`book`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2013	J	`jnl`	Coevolving Game-Playing Agents: Measuring Performance and Intransitivities. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Thomas Philip Runarsson, David Robles
2013	—	`ch.`	General Video Game Playing. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games John Levine, Clare Bates Congdon, Marc Ebner, Graham Kendall, Simon M. Lucas, Risto Miikkulainen, Tom Schaul, Tommy Thompson
2013	—	`conf`	Measuring interestingness of continuous game problems. CIG Samuel A. Roberts, Simon M. Lucas
2013	—	`conf`	Online and offline learning in multi-objective Monte Carlo Tree Search. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas
2013	A	`conf`	Rolling horizon evolution versus tree search for navigation in single-player real-time games. GECCO Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Philipp Rohlfshagen
2013	—	`ch.`	Towards a Video Game Description Language. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Marc Ebner, John Levine, Simon M. Lucas, Tom Schaul, Tommy Thompson, Julian Togelius
2013	—	`conf`	Using genetic programming to evolve heuristics for a Monte Carlo Tree Search Ms Pac-Man agent. CIG Atif M. Alhejali, Simon M. Lucas
2012	J	`jnl`	A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Cameron Browne, Edward Jack Powley, Daniel Whitehouse, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Stephen Tavener, Diego Perez Liebana, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon Colton
2012	—	`conf`	A web tool for monitoring HTTP asynchronous method invocations. ICITST Carlos R. Jaimez-González, Wulfrano Arturo Luna-Ramírez, Simon M. Lucas
2012	J	`jnl`	Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games (Dagstuhl Seminar 12191). Dagstuhl Reports Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, Julian Togelius
2012	—	`conf`	Evaluating the enjoyability of the ghosts in Ms Pac-Man. CIG Wichit Sombat, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2012	—	`conf`	Evolving spaceship designs for optimal control and the emergence of interesting behaviour. CIG Samuel A. Roberts, Simon M. Lucas
2012	—	`conf`	From competition to cooperation: Co-evolution in a rewards continuum. CIG Daniel A. Ashlock, Wendy Ashlock, Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas, Colin Lee
2012	—	`conf`	Imitating play from game trajectories: Temporal difference learning versus preference learning. CIG Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas
2012	—	`conf`	Learning and evolving combat game controllers. CIG Luís Peña, Sascha Ossowski, José María Peña Sánchez, Simon M. Lucas
2012	—	`conf`	Monte Carlo Tree Search: Long-term versus short-term planning. CIG Diego Perez Liebana, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2012	B	`conf`	Monte-Carlo Tree Search for the Physical Travelling Salesman Problem. EvoApplications Diego Perez Liebana, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2012	B	`conf`	The physical travelling salesman problem: WCCI 2012 competition. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Diego Perez Liebana, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2012	—	`conf`	Towards more intelligent adaptive video game agents: a computational intelligence perspective. Conf. Computing Frontiers Simon M. Lucas, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Diego Perez Liebana
2012	—	`conf`	Tutorials. CIG Mark J. Nelson, Paolo Burelli, Kostas Karpouzis, Simon M. Lucas, Peter I. Cowling
2011	—	`ed.`	2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2011, Seoul, South Korea, August 31 - September 3, 2011 CIG Sung-Bae Cho, Simon M. Lucas, Philip Hingston
2011	A	`conf`	Approximating n-player behavioural strategy nash equilibria using coevolution. GECCO Spyridon Samothrakis, Simon M. Lucas
2011	J	`jnl`	Fast Approximate Max-n Monte Carlo Tree Search for Ms Pac-Man. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Spyridon Samothrakis, David Robles, Simon M. Lucas
2011	—	`conf`	Learning non-random moves for playing Othello: Improving Monte Carlo Tree Search. CIG David Robles, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2011	B	`conf`	Ms Pac-Man versus Ghost Team CEC 2011 competition. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Philipp Rohlfshagen, Simon M. Lucas
2011	—	`conf`	Temporal difference learning with interpolated n-tuples: Initial results from a simulated car racing environment. CIG Aisha A. Abdullahi, Simon M. Lucas
2011	—	`conf`	Using a training camp with Genetic Programming to evolve Ms Pac-Man agents. CIG Atif M. Alhejali, Simon M. Lucas
2010	—	`conf`	A UCT agent for Tron: Initial investigations. CIG Spyridon Samothrakis, David Robles, Simon M. Lucas
2010	—	`conf`	Estimating learning rates in evolution and TDL: Results on a simple grid-world problem. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2010	—	`conf`	Grammatical Inference and Games: Extended Abstract. ICGI Simon M. Lucas
2010	—	`conf`	Information Theory and Game Strategy Learning. IJCCI (ICFC-ICNC) Simon M. Lucas
2010	—	`conf`	Sentence-Level Attachment Prediction. IRFC M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Simon M. Lucas
2009	—	`conf`	A simple tree search method for playing Ms. Pac-Man. CIG David Robles, Simon M. Lucas
2009	J	`jnl`	Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: A New IEEE Transactions. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Simon M. Lucas
2009	—	`conf`	Evolution versus Temporal Difference Learning for learning to play Ms. Pac-Man. CIG Peter Burrow, Simon M. Lucas
2009	—	`conf`	Ms Pac-Man versus ghost-team competition. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2009	B	`conf`	Orientational features with the SNT-grid. IJCNN Alejandro Foullon-Perez, Simon M. Lucas
2009	—	`conf`	Screen-capture Ms Pac-Man. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2009	C	`conf`	Semi-automatic BPT for Image Retrieval. CBMI Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Simon M. Lucas
2009	—	`conf`	Temporal difference learning with interpolated table value functions. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2008	J	`jnl`	2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2007) [Conference Reports]. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag. Simon M. Lucas
2008	J	`jnl`	Computational intelligence and games: Challenges and opportunities. Int. J. Autom. Comput. Simon M. Lucas
2008	—	`conf`	Generating diverse opponents with multiobjective evolution. CIG Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Andreas Konstantinidis
2008	—	`conf`	Investigating learning rates for evolution and temporal difference learning. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2008	A	`conf`	Learning to recognise mental activities: genetic programming of stateful classifiers for brain-computer interfacing. GECCO Alexandros Agapitos, Matthew Dyson, Simon M. Lucas, Francisco Sepulveda
2008	A	`conf`	On the genetic programming of time-series predictors for supply chain management. GECCO Alexandros Agapitos, Matthew Dyson, Jenya Kovalchuk, Simon M. Lucas
2008	A	`ed.`	Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X, 10th International Conference Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008, Proceedings PPSN Günter Rudolph, Thomas Jansen, Simon M. Lucas, Carlo Poloni, Nicola Beume
2008	J	`jnl`	The 2007 IEEE CEC simulated car racing competition. Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach. Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Ho Duc Thang, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Tomoharu Nakashima, Chin Hiong Tan, Itamar Elhanany, Shay Berant, Philip Hingston, Robert M. MacCallum, Thomas Haferlach, Aravind Gowrisankar, Peter Burrow
2008	—	`conf`	The WCCI 2008 simulated car racing competition. CIG Daniele Loiacono, Julian Togelius, Pier Luca Lanzi, Leonard Kinnaird-Heether, Simon M. Lucas, Matt Simmerson, Diego Perez Liebana, Robert G. Reynolds, Yago Sáez
2008	A*	`conf`	Ubiquitous robotics in physical human action recognition: A comparison between dynamic ANNs and GP. ICRA Theodoros Theodoridis, Alexandros Agapitos, Huosheng Hu, Simon M. Lucas
2008	C	`conf`	Wavelet domain binary partition trees for image segmentation. CBMI Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Hamid R. Rabiee, Simon M. Lucas
2007	B	`conf`	A statistically aligned recombination operator for finite state machines. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Simon M. Lucas
2007	—	`ch.`	Computational Intelligence in Racing Games. Advanced Intelligent Paradigms in Computer Games Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas, Renzo De Nardi
2007	B	`conf`	Evolving Modular Recursive Sorting Algorithms. EuroGP Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas
2007	B	`conf`	Evolving a Statistics Class Using Object Oriented Evolutionary Programming. EuroGP Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas
2007	A	`conf`	Evolving controllers for simulated car racing using object oriented genetic programming. GECCO Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2007	J	`jnl`	Games Technical Committee. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag. Simon M. Lucas
2007	—	`conf`	Implementing a State-Based Application Using Web Objects in XML. OTM Conferences (1) Carlos R. Jaimez-González, Simon M. Lucas
2007	J	`jnl`	Learning Finite-State Transducers: Evolution Versus Heuristic State Merging. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds
2007	B	`conf`	Multi-population competitive co-evolution of car racing controllers. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Julian Togelius, Peter Burrow, Simon M. Lucas
2007	B	`conf`	Multiobjective techniques for the use of state in genetic programming applied to simulated car racing. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Alexandros Agapitos, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2007	B	`conf`	N-gram fitness function with a constraint in a musical evolutionary system. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Man Yat Lo, Simon M. Lucas
2007	A	`conf`	Nonlinear dynamics modelling for controller evolution. GECCO Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi, Hugo Gravato Marques, Richard A. Newcombe, Simon M. Lucas, Owen Holland
2007	—	`conf`	Point-to-Point Car Racing: an Initial Study of Evolution Versus Temporal Difference Learning. CIG Simon M. Lucas, Julian Togelius
2007	C	`conf`	Sensorless but not Senseless: Prediction in Evolutionary Car Racing. ALIFE Hugo Gravato Marques, Julian Togelius, Magdalena Kogutowska, Owen Holland, Simon M. Lucas
2007	—	`conf`	Towards automatic personalised content creation for racing games. CIG Julian Togelius, Renzo De Nardi, Simon M. Lucas
2007	A	`conf`	Towards understanding the effects of neutrality on the sudoku problem. GECCO Edgar Galván López, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2007	J	`jnl`	User-configurable OCR enhancement for online natural history archives. Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit. Andy C. Downton, Jingyu He, Simon M. Lucas
2006	A	`conf`	Arms Races and Car Races. PPSN Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2006	B	`conf`	Evolution of Neural Networks for Helicopter Control: Why Modularity Matters. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Renzo De Nardi, Julian Togelius, Owen Holland, Simon M. Lucas
2006	J	`jnl`	Evolutionary computation and games. IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag. Simon M. Lucas, Graham Kendall
2006	B	`conf`	Evolving Efficient Recursive Sorting Algorithms. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas
2006	B	`conf`	Evolving Musical Sequences with N-Gram Based Trainable Fitness Functions. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Man Yat Lo, Simon M. Lucas
2006	J	`jnl`	Evolving controllers for simulated car racing CoRR Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2006	B	`conf`	Evolving robust and specialized car racing skills. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2006	B	`conf`	Learning Recursive Functions with Object Oriented Genetic Programming. EuroGP Alexandros Agapitos, Simon M. Lucas
2006	B	`conf`	Product Geometric Crossover for the Sudoku Puzzle. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Alberto Moraglio, Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2006	—	`conf`	Temporal Difference Learning Versus Co-Evolution for Acquiring Othello Position Evaluation. CIG Simon M. Lucas, Thomas Philip Runarsson
2005	J	`jnl`	Coevolution versus self-play temporal difference learning for acquiring position evaluation in small-board go. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Thomas Philip Runarsson, Simon M. Lucas
2005	—	`conf`	Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man. CIG Simon M. Lucas
2005	B	`conf`	Evolving controllers for simulated car racing. Congress on Evolutionary Computation Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2005	A	`conf`	Fast Convolutional OCR with the Scanning N-Tuple Grid. ICDAR Simon M. Lucas, Kyu Tae Cho
2005	—	`conf`	Forcing Neurocontrollers to Exploit Sensory Symmetry Through Hard-wired Modularity in the Game of Cellz. CIG Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
2005	J	`jnl`	ICDAR 2003 robust reading competitions: entries, results, and future directions. Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit. Simon M. Lucas, Alex Panaretos, Luis Sosa, Anthony Tang, Shirley Wong, Robert Young, Kazuki Ashida, Hiroki Nagai, Masayuki Okamoto, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Miyao, Junmin Zhu, WuWen Ou, Christian Wolf, Jean-Michel Jolion, Leon Todoran, Marcel Worring, Xiaofan Lin
2005	J	`jnl`	Learning Deterministic Finite Automata with a Smart State Labeling Evolutionary Algorithm. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds
2005	A	`conf`	Text Locating Competition Results. ICDAR Simon M. Lucas
2004	B	`conf`	Cellz: a simple dynamic game for testing evolutionary algorithms. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Simon M. Lucas
2004	B	`conf`	Exploiting Reflection in Object Oriented Genetic Programming. EuroGP Simon M. Lucas
2004	B	`ed.`	Genetic Programming, 7th European Conference, EuroGP2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings EuroGP Maarten Keijzer, Una-May O'Reilly, Simon M. Lucas, Ernesto Costa, Terence Soule
2004	—	`conf`	Sequence Recognition with Scanning N-Tuple Ensembles. ICPR (3) Simon M. Lucas, Tzu-Kuo Huang
2003	A	`conf`	Computerising Natural History Card Archives. ICDAR Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, Gregory Patoulas, G. W. Beccaloni, M. J. Scoble, G. S. Robinson
2003	—	`conf`	Discriminative Training of the Scanning N-Tuple Classifier. IWANN (1) Simon M. Lucas
2003	B	`conf`	Evolving Finite State Transducers: Some Initial Explorations. EuroGP Simon M. Lucas
2003	A	`conf`	Fast Lexicon-Based Word Recognition in Noisy Index Card Images. ICDAR Simon M. Lucas, Gregory Patoulas, Andy C. Downton
2003	A	`conf`	ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competitions. ICDAR Simon M. Lucas, Alex Panaretos, Luis Sosa, Anthony Tang, Shirley Wong, Robert Young
2003	B	`conf`	Learning DFA: evolution versus evidence driven state merging. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds
2002	B	`conf`	Evolving spring-mass models: a test-bed for graph encoding schemes. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Simon M. Lucas
2002	—	`conf`	Likelihood Word Image Generation Model for Word Recognition. ICPR (3) Eiki Ishidera, Simon M. Lucas, Andy C. Downton
2002	B	`conf`	Top-Down Likelihood Word Image Generation Model for Holistic Word Recognition. Document Analysis Systems Eiki Ishidera, Simon M. Lucas, Andy C. Downton
2002	—	`conf`	Web-Based Evaluation and Deployment of Pattern Recognizers. ICPR (3) Simon M. Lucas
2001	A	`conf`	Constructing Web-Based Legacy Index Card Archives - Architectural Design Issues and Initial Data Acquisition. ICDAR Andy C. Downton, A. C. Tams, G. J. Wells, A. C. Holmes, Simon M. Lucas, G. W. Beccaloni, M. J. Scoble, G. S. Robinson
2001	J	`jnl`	Efficient graph-based dictionary search and its application to text-image searching. Pattern Recognit. Lett. Simon M. Lucas
2001	A	`conf`	Robust Word Recognition for Museum Archive Card Indexing. ICDAR Simon M. Lucas, A. C. Tams, Sung J. Cho, Andy C. Downton, Sungho Ryu
2000	B	`conf`	Automatic Evaluation of Algorithms over the Internet. ICPR Simon M. Lucas, Kostas Sarampalis
2000	B	`conf`	Efficient Best-First Dictionary Search Given Graph-Based Input. ICPR Simon M. Lucas
1999	A	`conf`	Lazy Evaluation for Best-First Contextual Handwriting Recognition. ICDAR Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, L. Du
1997	A	`conf`	Face recognition with the continuous n-tuple classifier. BMVC Simon M. Lucas
1997	Misc	`conf`	Forward-Backward Building Blocks for Evolving Neural Networks with Intrinsic Learning Behaviors. IWANN Simon M. Lucas
1997	A	`conf`	Generalized Contextual Recognition of Hand-Printed Documents Using Semantic Trees with Lazy Evaluation. ICDAR L. Du, Andy C. Downton, Simon M. Lucas, Badr Al-Badr
1996	B	`conf`	Evolving neural network learning behaviours with set-based chromosomes. ESANN Simon M. Lucas
1996	J	`jnl`	Rapid best-first retrieval from massive dictionaries. Pattern Recognit. Lett. Simon M. Lucas
1995	B	`conf`	Growing adaptive neural networks with graph grammars. ESANN Simon M. Lucas
1995	—	`conf`	Rapid best-first retrieval from massive dictionaries by lazy evaluation of a syntactic neural network. ICNN Simon M. Lucas
1994	—	`conf`	A Comparison of Syntactic and Statistical Techniques for Off-Line OCR. ICGI Simon M. Lucas, Enrique Vidal, A. Amiri, S. Hanlon, Juan-Carlos Amengual
1994	—	`conf`	Structuring Chromosomes for Context-Free Grammar Evolution. International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Simon M. Lucas
1993	—	`conf`	On decomposing MLPs. ICNN Simon M. Lucas, Z. Zhao, G. Cawley, P. Noakes
1991	Misc	`conf`	Syntactic neural networks for text-phonetics translation. ICASSP Simon M. Lucas, Robert I. Damper
1990	B	`conf`	Signature verification with a syntactic neural net. IJCNN Simon M. Lucas, Robert I. Damper
1990	—	`conf`	Text-to-phonetics translation with syntactic neural nets. SSW Simon M. Lucas, Robert I. Damper