Playing Games at the Library: Seriously?

Playing Transportation Seriously

30) We discuss on the potential integration of Serious Games into the conceptual framework of Artificial Transportation Systems, focusing on behaviour elicitation through peer-designed agents to model and simulate artificial societies on a participative basis.

Playing Games with Timed Games

In this paper we focus on property-preserving preorders between timed game automata and their application to control of partially observable systems. Following the example of timed simulation between timed automata, we define timed alternating simulation as a preorder between timed game automata, which preserves controllability. We define a method to reduce the timed alternating simulation prob...

Playing Games with the Law

Playing Stochastic Games Precisely

We study stochastic two-player games where the goal of one player is to achieve precisely a given expected value of the objective function, while the goal of the opponent is the opposite. Potential applications for such games include controller synthesis problems where the optimisation objective is to maximise or minimise a given payoff function while respecting a strict upper or lower bound, r...

Girls Playing Games 1 Running head: GIRLS PLAYING GAMES Girls Playing Games: The Effect of Gender Stereotypes on Video Game Playing Motivation and Performance

Research on gender and video game playing has long been interested in the question of why females play fewer video games and play video games less frequently than males do. The present study examines the immediate impacts of a negative gender stereotype on females' motivation for and performance in playing a racing video game. Exposure to a negative gender stereotype about video game playing wa...