Ludii as a Competition Platform

Matthew Stephenson; Eric Piette; Dennis Soemers; Cameron Browne

doi:10.1109/CIG.2019.8848084

Ludii as a Competition Platform

Matthew Stephenson^*, Eric Piette, Dennis Soemers, Cameron Browne

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Advanced Computing Sciences

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Abstract

Ludii is a general game system being developed as part of the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme Project (DLP). While its primary aim is to model, play, and analyse the full range of traditional strategy games, Ludii also has the potential to support a wide range of AI research topics and competitions. This paper describes some of the future competitions and challenges that we intend to run using the Ludii system, highlighting some of its most important aspects that can potentially lead to many algorithm improvements and new avenues of research. We compare and contrast our proposed competition motivations,goals and frameworks against those of existing general game playing competitions, addressing the strengths and weaknesses of each platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Conference on Games
Subtitle of host publication	(COG'19)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	634-641
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781728118840
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848084
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2019
Event	IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE COG) - London, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Aug 2019 → 23 Aug 2019 https://ieee-cog.org/2019/

Publication series

Series	IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
ISSN	2325-4270

Conference

Conference	IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE COG)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	20/08/19 → 23/08/19
Internet address	https://ieee-cog.org/2019/

Keywords

General Game Playing
Artificial Intelligence
Competitions
Ludii
Ludemes
Board games
ARCADE LEARNING-ENVIRONMENT
AI
POKER

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