AI Game Programming Wisdom http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/AI-Game-Programming-Wisdom-Steve-Rabin-Edited-by/9781584500773

Approximately 70 articles by Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmers discuss the skills and concepts needed to apply AI to game programming. They cover basic concepts, techniques and specialized systems, pathfinding with A*, pathfinding and movement, tactical issues and intelligent group movement,

Table of Contents

Topics Covered General AI Architectures Micro Threads for Agents State Machines Fuzzy State Machines Rule Based Systems Level-of-Detail AI Data-Driving AI Scripting Language Issues Designing Agent Personalities Managing Goals/ Planning Extensible AI-Bots Trigger Systems Influence Mapping Tactical Assessment A* Pathfinding Formations Flocking Agent Cooperation Squad Based Tactics Expert Systems Machine Learning Fuzzy Logic Genetic Algorithms Neural Networks Bayesian Networks