Vanessa Volz

According to our database, Vanessa Volz authored at least 35 papers between 2015 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

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2024

Not All the Same: Understanding and Informing Similarity Estimation in Tile-Based Video Games.

Sebastian Berns, Vanessa Volz, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Sam Snodgrass, Christian Guckelsberger

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

Hybrid Encoding for Generating Large Scale Game Level Patterns With Local Variations.

Jacob Schrum, Benjamin Capps, Kirby Steckel, Vanessa Volz, Sebastian Risi

IEEE Trans. Games, March, 2023

Tools for Landscape Analysis of Optimisation Problems in Procedural Content Generation for Games.

Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks, Pascal Kerschke, Tea Tusar

Appl. Soft Comput., March, 2023

2021

Hybrid Encoding For Generating Large Scale Game Level Patterns With Local Variations Using a GAN.

Jacob Schrum, Benjamin Capps, Kirby Steckel, Vanessa Volz, Sebastian Risi

CoRR, 2021

2020

Towards Better Integration of Surrogate Models and Optimizers.

Tinkle Chugh, Alma A. M. Rahat, Vanessa Volz, Martin Zaefferer

Proceedings of the High-Performance Simulation-Based Optimization, 2020

Uncertainty Handling in Surrogate Assisted Optimisation of Games.

Vanessa Volz

Künstliche Intell., 2020

Identifying Properties of Real-World Optimisation Problems through a Questionnaire.

Koen van der Blom, Timo M. Deist, Vanessa Volz, Mariapia Marchi, Yusuke Nojima, Boris Naujoks, Akira Oyama, Tea Tusar

CoRR, 2020

Benchmarking in Optimization: Best Practice and Open Issues.

Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Carola Doerr, Jakob Bossek, Sowmya Chandrasekaran, Tome Eftimov, Andreas Fischbach, Pascal Kerschke, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Katherine M. Malan, Jason H. Moore, Boris Naujoks, Patryk Orzechowski, Vanessa Volz, Markus Wagner, Thomas Weise

CoRR, 2020

CPPN2GAN: combining compositional pattern producing networks and GANs for large-scale pattern generation.

Jacob Schrum, Vanessa Volz, Sebastian Risi

Proceedings of the GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020

Interactive evolution and exploration within latent level-design space of generative adversarial networks.

Jacob Schrum, Jake Gutierrez, Vanessa Volz, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Sebastian Risi

Proceedings of the GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020

Towards realistic optimization benchmarks: a questionnaire on the properties of real-world problems.

Koen van der Blom, Timo M. Deist, Tea Tusar, Mariapia Marchi, Yusuke Nojima, Akira Oyama, Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020

Towards Game-Playing AI Benchmarks via Performance Reporting Standards.

Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

Capturing Local and Global Patterns in Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning.

Vanessa Volz, Niels Justesen, Sam Snodgrass, Sahar Asadi, Sami Purmonen, Christoffer Holmgård, Julian Togelius, Sebastian Risi

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

2019

Uncertainty handling in surrogate assisted optimisation of games

Vanessa Volz

PhD thesis, 2019

Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best.

Simon M. Lucas, Jialin Liu, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, John R. Woodward, Vanessa Volz, Diego Perez Liebana

CoRR, 2019

Single- and multi-objective game-benchmark for evolutionary algorithms.

Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks, Pascal Kerschke, Tea Tusar

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2019

On benchmarking surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms.

Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels.

Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2019

Game AI hyperparameter tuning in rinascimento.

Ivan Bravi, Vanessa Volz, Simon M. Lucas

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

On the Effects of Simulating Human Decisions in Game Analysis.

Vanessa Volz, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

A Local Approach to Forward Model Learning: Results on the Game of Life Game.

Simon M. Lucas, Alexander Dockhorn, Vanessa Volz, Chris Bamford, Raluca D. Gaina, Ivan Bravi, Diego Pérez-Liébana, Sanaz Mostaghim, Rudolf Kruse

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

Learning Local Forward Models on Unforgiving Games.

Alexander Dockhorn, Simon M. Lucas, Vanessa Volz, Ivan Bravi, Raluca D. Gaina, Diego Perez Liebana

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

2018

Towards Embodied StarCraft II Winner Prediction.

Vanessa Volz, Mike Preuss, Mathias Kirk Bonde

Proceedings of the Computer Games - 7th Workshop, 2018

Evolving mario levels in the latent space of a deep convolutional generative adversarial network.

Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jialin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam M. Smith, Sebastian Risi

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

A Social Science-based Approach to Explanations for (Game) AI.

Vanessa Volz, Kevin Majchrzak, Mike Preuss

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

Integrated Balancing of an RTS Game: Case Study and Toolbox Refinement.

Mike Preuss, Thomas Pfeiffer, Vanessa Volz, Nicolas Pflanzl

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

2017

A Vision on Analysing Approaches for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Using Computer Games.

Christian Eichhorn, Vanessa Volz, Richard Niland, Tim Schendekehl

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief (DKB-2017) and the 5th Workshop KI & Kognition (KIK-2017) co-located with 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2017), 2017

Investigating uncertainty propagation in surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms.

Vanessa Volz, Günter Rudolph, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

Surrogate-Assisted Partial Order-Based Evolutionary Optimisation.

Vanessa Volz, Günter Rudolph, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 2017

Measuring strategic depth in games using hierarchical knowledge bases.

Daan Apeldoorn, Vanessa Volz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2017

2016

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Automatic Game Balancing.

Vanessa Volz, Günter Rudolph, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July 20, 2016

GECCO'16 Student Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization.

Vanessa Volz, Samadhi Nallaperuma, Boris Naujoks

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2016

MCTS/EA hybrid GVGAI players and game difficulty estimation.

Hendrik Horn, Vanessa Volz, Diego Perez Liebana, Mike Preuss

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

An integrated process for game balancing.

Marlene Beyer, Aleksandr Agureikin, Alexander Anokhin, Christoph Laenger, Felix Nolte, Jonas Winterberg, Marcel Renka, Martin Rieger, Nicolas Pflanzl, Mike Preuss, Vanessa Volz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

2015

Analysing observable success and activity indicators on crowdfunding platforms.

Jens Lechtenbörger, Florian Stahl, Vanessa Volz, Gottfried Vossen

Int. J. Web Based Communities, 2015