DTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents

Geoffrey P. Morgan; Frank E. Ritter; William E. Stevenson; Ian N. Schenck; Mark A. Cohen

DTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents

Geoffrey P. Morgan, Frank E. Ritter, William E. Stevenson, Ian N. Schenck, Mark A. Cohen

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Abstract

We introduce dTank, a competitive environment, as useful for architectural comparisons of competitive agents and comparisons of human and agent behavior. dTank, a Java-based simulation, was designed to facilitate these forms of holistic comparison of emergent behavior. We present several models built using several cognitive and agent architectures (Java, Jess, and Soar), and compare them against a novice participant. We find that our novice participant used two strategies while playing: wandering and attacking. All three agents accurately modeled the novice's wandering behavior, while the Soar agent more accurately modeled the novice's attack behavior. These results demonstrate the usefulness of dTank as a teaching and modeling tool, and as a lightweight environment for testing cognitive models and architectures.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005
Pages	223-230
Number of pages	8
State	Published - Dec 1 2005
Event	14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005 - Universal City, CA, United States Duration: May 16 2005 → May 19 2005

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Name	Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005

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Other	14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005
Country/Territory	United States
City	Universal City, CA
Period	5/16/05 → 5/19/05

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Modeling and Simulation

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Morgan, G. P., Ritter, F. E., Stevenson, W. E., Schenck, I. N., & Cohen, M. A. (2005). DTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents. In Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005 (pp. 223-230). (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

Morgan, Geoffrey P. ; Ritter, Frank E. ; Stevenson, William E. et al. / DTank : An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents. Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. 2005. pp. 223-230 (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

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Morgan, GP, Ritter, FE, Stevenson, WE, Schenck, IN & Cohen, MA 2005, DTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents. in Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005, pp. 223-230, 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005, Universal City, CA, United States, 5/16/05.

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Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. 2005. p. 223-230 (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

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Morgan GP, Ritter FE, Stevenson WE, Schenck IN, Cohen MA. DTank: An environment for architectural comparisons of competitive agents. In Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005. 2005. p. 223-230. (Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization - 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation 2005).

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