About the Editor About the Contributors Introduction 1 Tactical Position Selection: An Architecture and Query Language Matthew Jack 2 Tactical Pathfinding on a NavMesh Daniel Brewer 3 Beyond the Kung-Fu Circle: A Flexible System for Managing NPC Attacks Michael Dawe 4 Hierarchical AI for Multiplayer Bots in Killzone Remco Straatman, Tim Verweij, Alex Champandard, Robert Morcus, and Hylke Kleve 5 Using Neural Networks to Control Agent Threat Response Michael Robbins 6 Looking for Trouble: Making NPCs Search Realistically Rich Welsh 7 Modeling Perception and Awareness in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist Martin Walsh 8 Escaping the Grid: Infinite-Resolution Influence Mapping Mike Lewis 9 Modular Tactical Influence Maps Dave Mark 10 Spatial Reasoning for Strategic Decision Making Kevin Dill 11 Extending the Spatial Coverage of a Voxel-Based Navigation Mesh Kevin A. Kirst 12 Being Where It Counts: Telling Paragon Bots Where to Go Mieszko Zielinski 13 Combat Outcome Prediction for Real-Time Strategy Games Marius Stanescu, Nicolas A. Barriga, and Michael Buro 14 Guide to Effective Auto-Generated Spatial Queries Eric Johnson 15 The Role of Time in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning: Three Examples from Tower Defense Baylor Wetzel and Kyle Anderson 16 Pitfalls and Solutions When Using Monte Carlo Tree Search for Strategy and Tactical Games Gijs-Jan Roelofs 17 Petri Nets and AI Arbitration Sergio Ocio Barriales 18 Hierarchical Portfolio Search in Prismata David Churchill and Michael Buro
