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A Micromanagement Task Allocation System for Real-Time Strategy Games

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rogers, K.D. Skabar, A.A.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Real-time strategy (RTS) game play is a combination of strategy and micromanagement. While strategy is clearly important, the success of a strategy can depend greatly on effective micromanagement. Recent years have seen an increase in work focusing on micromanagement in RTS AI, but the great majority of these works have focused on policies for individual units or very specific situations, while very little work has aimed to address the need for a broadly applicable structure for unit group coordination. This paper conceptualizes RTS group level micromanagement as a multiagent task allocation (TA) problem, and proposes the micromanagement task allocation system (MTAS) as a framework to bridge the gap between strategy and unit level micromanagement. MTAS fits into the common layered RTS AI structure, and can thus, in principle, be integrated into any existing system based on this layered structure. We describe the integration of MTAS into E323AI (an existing AI player for the spring RTS engine), and provide empirical results demonstrating that MTAS leads to statistically significant improvement in performance on the popular RTS game Balanced Annihilation.
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	77
Page Count	11
File Size	725574
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1943068X
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Artificial intelligence Games Resource management Real-time systems Buildings Computers Cognition task allocation (TA) systems Artificial intelligence (AI) computer games micromanagement real-time strategy (RTS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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