Section: Software and Platforms

Artificial Intelligence Using Randomness

Participant : Florian Richoux [correspondant] .

AIUR (Artificial Intelligence Using Randomness) is an AI for $StarCraft:BroodWa{r}^{tm}$.

The main idea is to be unpredictable by making some stochastic choices. The AI starts a game with a "mood" randomly picked up among 5 moods, dictating some behaviors (aggressive, fast expand, macro-game, ...). In addition, some other choices (productions, timing attacks, early aggressions, ...) are also taken under random conditions.

Learning is an essential part of AIUR. For this, it uses persistent I/O files system to record which moods are efficient against a given opponent, in order to modify the probability distribution for the mood selection.

AIUR is an open source program under GNU GPL V3 licence, written in C++ (18.000 lines of code). Source and documentations are available at http://code.google.com/p/aiurproject/ . AIUR finished 3^rd to $StarCraf{t}^{tm}$ AI competitions organized at the conferences AIIDE 2013 and CIG 2013.