The conditional strategy is a theoretical framework that explains the existence within populations of individuals that express alternative behavioral, physical or life history tactics (phenotypes). An example is fighters and sneakers in many animal mating systems. In the conditional strategy the alternative tactics are chosen by individuals based on their state, for example large or small bodie...

The decision-making process of computer-controlled opponents in video games is called game AI. Adaptive game AI can improve the entertainment value of games by allowing computer-controlled opponents to fix weaknesses automatically in the game AI, and to respond to changes in human-player tactics. Dynamic scripting is a reinforcement learning approach to adaptive game AI that learns, during game...

Software architects principally leverage successful architectural design practices systematized in terms of architectural styles and tactics. While architectural tactics focus on particular non-functional properties, styles are typical solutions that generally coverage several aspects. The problem is that we do not yet have a formal account of how styles and tactics interact in a way that is su...

Manipulation is one means by which environments are altered to correspond to characteristics of individuals. We conducted two studies to identify the manipulation tactics that people use to elicit and terminate the actions of others. Factor analyses of four instruments revealed six types of tactics: charm, silent treatment, coercion, reason, regression, and debasement. Tactics of manipulation s...

Existing works on detecting persuasion in text make use of lexical features for detecting persuasive tactics, without taking advantage of the possible structures inherent in the tactics used. In this paper, we propose a multi-class classification, unsupervised domain-independent model for detecting the type of persuasion used in text, that makes use of the sentence structure inherent in the dif...