Lab Exercise 6: Games and AI
The topic of “games” covers a wide spectrum of activities, from well-defined ones with official rules such as chess, to completely informal ones that are made up aond modified on the spot. In this exercise, you’ll select one game, and analyze its suitability for implementing a computer-based agent to play that game.
Tasks
Your task in this exercise is to select a game that you are reasonably familiar with, or interested in enough to find out more about it. You will have to examine the set of rules that describes how the game is played, and explore possible approaches to utilize computer-based strategies for an agent to play the game. The choice of the game is up to you, but if you choose a more obscure one, it may be harder to find additional information helpful in answering the questions for this lab.
Administrative Aspects
Assignment Submission
This assignment must be submitted electronically via a Web form. Please note that I’m planning to make already submitted answers available when somebody just finished the questionnaire. So make sure that you’re not including information you’d prefer not to share with others.
Collaboration
This exercise is an individual assignment. You may coordinate your work on this with other students, such as your team mates, but everyone needs to submit their own answers through the Web form. For example, you can talk about the same AI embodiment, but describe your own experiences or interpretations.
Questions about the Assignment
If you have general questions or comments concerning exercise, post them on the Blackboard Discussion Forum for the assignment. The grader and I will check that forum on a regular basis, and try to answer your questions. If you know the answer to a support or clarification question posted by somebody else, feel free to answer it; this will count as extra participation credit.