Alexander Zook

752 total citations
26 papers, 450 citations indexed

About

Alexander Zook is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Zook has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 450 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Zook's work include Artificial Intelligence in Games (21 papers), Digital Games and Media (13 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (7 papers). Alexander Zook is often cited by papers focused on Artificial Intelligence in Games (21 papers), Digital Games and Media (13 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (7 papers). Alexander Zook collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Alexander Zook's co-authors include Mark Riedl, Sauvik Das, Stephen Lee-Urban, Brian Magerko, Nicholas Davis, Heather K. Holden, Robert A. Sottilare, Keith Brawner, Anna Eklöf and Ute Jacob and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Theoretical Biology, AI Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Zook

25 papers receiving 420 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Zook United States	13	297	193	164	102	48	26	450
Kate Compton United States	7	129 0.4×	73 0.4×	48 0.3×	61 0.6×	17 0.4×	16	232
Rafael Pérez y Pérez Mexico	11	295 1.0×	99 0.5×	51 0.3×	84 0.8×	48 1.0×	48	451
Mark K. Ho United States	15	212 0.7×	131 0.7×	79 0.5×	33 0.3×	44 0.9×	31	486
Eike Falk Anderson United Kingdom	10	88 0.3×	110 0.6×	176 1.1×	240 2.4×	39 0.8×	51	587
Steven J. Mead United Kingdom	10	356 1.2×	164 0.8×	66 0.4×	155 1.5×	152 3.2×	27	490
Wookhee Min United States	12	244 0.8×	54 0.3×	176 1.1×	65 0.6×	18 0.4×	52	444
Robert A. Sottilare United States	11	172 0.6×	30 0.2×	130 0.8×	76 0.7×	24 0.5×	58	386
Brian M. Slator United States	14	322 1.1×	43 0.2×	139 0.8×	42 0.4×	18 0.4×	58	677
Jeff Orkin United States	8	311 1.0×	60 0.3×	34 0.2×	103 1.0×	57 1.2×	17	388
Florian Block United Kingdom	11	133 0.4×	168 0.9×	86 0.5×	166 1.6×	4 0.1×	36	561

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Alhaija, Hassan Abu, James M. Lucas, Alexander Zook, et al.. (2023). Interactive AI Material Generation and Editing in NVIDIA Omniverse. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

Zook, Alexander & Mark Riedl. (2018). Learning How Design Choices Impact Gameplay Behavior. IEEE Transactions on Games. 11(1). 25–35. 3 indexed citations

Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Program synthesis as a generative method. 1–10. 3 indexed citations

Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2016). A Programming Model for Boss Encounters in 2D Action Games. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 12(2). 86–92. 5 indexed citations

Buro, Michael, Michael Cook, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, et al.. (2016). The AIIDE 2015 Workshop Program. AI Magazine. 37(2). 91–94. 1 indexed citations

Zook, Alexander, Brent Harrison, & Mark Riedl. (2015). Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Simulation-based Play Strategy Analysis.. Foundations of Digital Games. 19 indexed citations

Cook, Michael, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Adam M. Smith, et al.. (2015). AI-based Games: Contrabot and What Did You Do?. Foundations of Digital Games. 1 indexed citations

Das, Sauvik, Alexander Zook, & Mark Riedl. (2015). Examining Game World Topology Personalization. 3731–3734. 8 indexed citations

Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2014). Viewpoints AI: Procedurally Representing and Reasoning about Gestures. 16 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2014). Collaboration versus competition: Design and evaluation of mechanics for games with a purpose.. Foundations of Digital Games. 24 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander & Mark Riedl. (2014). Automatic Game Design via Mechanic Generation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 28(1). 530–536. 23 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander & Mark Riedl. (2014). Temporal Game Challenge Tailoring. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games. 7(4). 336–346. 7 indexed citations

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Davis, Nicholas, et al.. (2013). Creativity support for novice digital filmmaking. 651–660. 29 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander & Mark Riedl. (2012). A Temporal Data-Driven Player Model for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 8(1). 93–98. 43 indexed citations

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Li, Boyang, Alexander Zook, Nicholas Davis, & Mark Riedl. (2012). Goal-Driven Conceptual Blending: A Computational Approach for Creativity. ICCC. 9–16. 18 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2012). Skill-based Mission Generation. 1–8. 25 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, Mark Riedl, & Brian Magerko. (2011). Understanding Human Creativity for Computational Play.. ICCC. 42–47. 4 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, et al.. (2011). Toward supporting stories with procedurally generated game worlds. 297–304. 67 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, Brian Magerko, & Mark Riedl. (2011). Formally modeling pretend object play. 147–156. 5 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, Anna Eklöf, Ute Jacob, & Stefano Allesina. (2010). Food webs: Ordering species according to body size yields high degree of intervality. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 271(1). 106–113. 29 indexed citations

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