Dr Raluca Gaina
Lecturer in Game AI
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Tabletop games, Artificial Intelligence, Game-playing AI, Evolutionary Algorithms, Procedural Content Generation, Automatic testing of games
Interests
My research interests focus on the use of AI in tabletop games for playing, testing and analysing such games. I also have experience in evolutionary algorithms for playing or optimisation of games, as well as procedural content generation methods applied to games.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI2021
Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game PlayingGaina RD, Devlin S, Lucas SM and Perez D
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
18-02-2021
2020
Tribes: A New Turn-Based Strategy Game for AI ResearchPerez-Liebana D, Hsu Y-J, Emmanouilidis S, Khaleque B and Gaina R
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. vol. 16 (1), 252-258.
01-10-2020
Rolling Horizon NEAT for General Video Game PlayingPerez-Liebana D, Alam MS and Gaina RD
2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). vol. 00, 375-382.
27-08-2020
Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game PlayingGaina RD, Perez-Liebana D, Lucas SM, Sironi CF and Winands MHM
2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). vol. 00, 367-374.
27-08-2020
Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card GameMontoliu R, Gaina RD, Pérez-Liebana D, Delgado D and Lucas S
International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation. vol. 12104 LNCS, 403-418.
09-04-2020
2019
Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in PommermanPerez-Liebana D, Gaina RD, Drageset O, İlhan E, Balla M and Lucas SM
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. vol. 15 (1), 66-72.
08-10-2019
General Video Game Artificial IntelligenceLié, bana DPXR, Lucas SM, Gaina RD, Togelius J, Khalifa A, Liu J and Ashlock D
08-10-2019
A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life GameLucas S, Dockhorn A, Volz V, Bamford C, GAINA RALUCA, Bravi I, Perez-Liebana D, Mostaghim S and Kruse R
IEEE Conference on Games (COG).
20-08-2019
Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving GamesDockhorn A, Lucas S, Volz V, Bravi I, GAINA RALUCA and Perez-Liebana D
IEEE Conference on Games (COG).
20-08-2019
Optimising Level Generators for General Video Game AIDrageset O, GAINA RALUCA, Perez-Liebana D and Winands M
IEEE Conference on Games (COG).
20-08-2019
'Did You Hear That?' Learning to Play Video Games from Audio CuesGAINA RALUCA and Stephenson M
IEEE Conference on Games (COG).
20-08-2019
Project Thyia: A Forever GameplayerGAINA RALUCA, Lucas S and Perez-Liebana D
IEEE Conference on Games (COG).
20-08-2019
Tackling Sparse Rewards in Real-Time Games with Statistical Forward Planning MethodsGaina RD, Lucas SM and Pérez-Liébana D
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 33 (01), 1691-1698.
17-07-2019
General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games and Content Generation AlgorithmsPerez D, Liu J, Abdel Samea Khalifa A, Gaina RD, Togelius J and Lucas SM
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee), 1-1.
11-03-2019
Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is BestLucas S, Liu J, Bravi I, GAINA RALUCA, Woodward J, Volz V and Perez-Liebana D
Game Simulations Workshop (AAAI).
04-02-2019
2018
VERTIGØ: Visualisation of Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms in GVGAIGaina R, Lucas S and Pérez-Liébana D
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. vol. 14 (1), 265-267.
25-09-2018
General Win Prediction from Agent ExperienceGaina RD, Lucas SM and Perez-Liebana D
2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). vol. 00, 1-8.
17-08-2018
Self-adaptive MCTS for General Video Game PlayingSironi CF, Liu J, Perez-Liebana D, Gaina RD, Bravi I, Lucas SM and Winands MHM
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 10784 LNCS, 358-375.
01-01-2018
2017
Automatic game tuning for strategic diversityGaina RD, Volkovas R, Diaz CG and Davidson R
2017 9th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference, CEEC 2017 - Proceedings., 195-200.
08-11-2017
The 2016 Two-Player GVGAI CompetitionGaina RD, Couetoux A, Soemers D, Winands MHM, Vodopivec T, Kirchgebner F, Liu J, Lucas SM and Perez D
Ieee Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
07-11-2017
Rolling horizon evolution enhancements in general video game playingGaina RD, Lucas SM and Perez-Liebana D
2017 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2017., 88-95.
23-10-2017
Introducing real world physics and macro-actions to general video game aiPerez-Liebana D, Stephenson M, Gaina RD, Renz J and Lucas SM
2017 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2017., 248-255.
23-10-2017
Population seeding techniques for Rolling Horizon Evolution in General Video Game PlayingGaina RD, Lucas SM and Perez-Liebana D
2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2017 - Proceedings., 1956-1963.
05-07-2017
The N-Tuple bandit evolutionary algorithm for automatic game improvementKunanusont K, Gaina RD, Liu J, Perez-Liebana D and Lucas SM
2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2017 - Proceedings., 2201-2208.
05-07-2017
General video game for 2 players: Framework and competitionGaina RD, Pérez-Liébana D and Lucas SM
2016 8th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference, CEEC 2016 - Conference Proceedings., 186-191.
27-01-2017
Analysis of vanilla rolling Horizon evolution parameters in general video game playingGaina RD, Liu J, Lucas SM and Pérez-Liébana D
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 10199 LNCS, 418-434.
01-01-2017