Non-Player Characters

Clockwork: A Discrete Event and Agent-Based Social Simulation Framework (In Review)

Agent-based social simulation can be useful for creating digital twins of societies of interacting autonomous agents. Such simulations are useful for testing hypotheses about behaviour and belief change in the presence of interventions. In this …

Little Computer People: A Survey and Taxonomy of Simulated Models of Social Interaction

Bolstered by a growing interest in simulating believable non-player characters (NPCs), work on NPC models has spanned topics such as planning, procedural storytelling, decision-making, and social dynamics. However, research groups work in isolation, …