The need for engaging treatment approaches within mental health care has led to the application of gaming approaches to existing behavioral training programs (i.e., gamification). Because children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tend to have fewer problems with concentration and engagement when playing digital games, applying game technologies and design approaches to compl...

Recent development in game AI has seen action planning and its derivates being adapted for controlling agents in classical types of games, such as FPSs or RPGs. Complementary, one can seek new types of gameplay elements inspired by planning. We propose and formally define a new game ”genre” called anticipation games and demonstrate that planning can be used as their key concept both at design t...

games based solely on formal game descriptions supplied at run time. (In other words, they don’t know the rules until the game starts.) Unlike specialized game players, such as Deep Blue (Campbell, Hoane, and Hsu 2002), general game players cannot rely on algorithms designed in advance for specific games; they must discover such algorithms themselves. General game playing expertise depends on i...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most malignant tumors. Although various treatments, such as surgery and chemotherapy, have been developed, a novel alternative therapeutic approach for HCC therapy is urgently needed. Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a promising anti-cancer agent, but many cancer cells are resistant to TRAIL-induced apoptosis. To hel...

Goal-oriented Behaviour for Intelligent Game Agents Ying Ying She, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2011 This thesis concerns our innovation in game AI techniques, mainly game agents’ modeling, planning and learning. The research topic involves the development of a game design software — Gameme. Our work mainly focus on the development of the core AI module. In this thesis, after discussing the syst...

The development of a dynamic game model for planning a double and duplication of supervision based on the indeterminate appointment probability and order of supervisors on the grounds of the current causes of planning and supervision collusion in real estate land is presented in this paper and the question how to separate the planning from supervision availably is analyzed. The dynamic game is ...

Introduction: Video games are common cultural issues with great influence in all societies. One of the important cognitive effects of video games is on creating stress on video players. The present research objective was to study different types of stress in players based on video game styles.  Methods: A total of 80 players, aged 18 to 30 years, played four types of video games;  Ru...