Andy Nealen

692 total citations
28 papers, 262 citations indexed

About

Andy Nealen is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Nealen has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 262 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Andy Nealen's work include Artificial Intelligence in Games (23 papers), Digital Games and Media (14 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (7 papers). Andy Nealen is often cited by papers focused on Artificial Intelligence in Games (23 papers), Digital Games and Media (14 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (7 papers). Andy Nealen collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Andy Nealen's co-authors include Julian Togelius, Scott Lee, Aaron Isaksen, Ahmed Khalifa, André Sales Mendes, Christoph Salge, Oded Nov, Adam Finkelstein, Steven J. Brams and Tracy Hammond and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Games, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment.

In The Last Decade

Andy Nealen

27 papers receiving 250 citations

Peers

Andy Nealen
Johannes Pfau United States
Marc Ponsen Netherlands
Tobias Mahlmann Denmark
Chong-U Lim United States
Tommy Thompson United Kingdom
Robin Baumgarten United Kingdom
Hilmar Finnsson Iceland
Peter Mawhorter United States
Georgios N. Yannakakis Malta
Adam Summerville United States
Johannes Pfau United States
Andy Nealen
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Fields of papers citing papers by Andy Nealen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nealen, Andy, et al.. (2020). Interactive Design Exploration of Game StagesUsing Adjustable Synthetic Testers. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Nealen, Andy, et al.. (2019). Kwiri - What, When, Where and Who: Everything you ever wanted to know about your game but didn't know how to ask. 2313. 43–50.
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Lee, Scott, et al.. (2018). Evolving maps and decks for ticket to ride. 1–7. 5 indexed citations
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Salge, Christoph, et al.. (2018). Drawing without replacement as a game mechanic. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Togelius, Julian, et al.. (2018). Generating Novice Heuristics for Post-Flop Poker. 1–8. 4 indexed citations
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Khalifa, Ahmed, Scott Lee, Andy Nealen, & Julian Togelius. (2018). Talakat. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1047–1054. 41 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron, et al.. (2017). Depth in strategic games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 967–974. 12 indexed citations
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Lee, Scott, et al.. (2017). AI as evaluator: Search driven playtesting of modern board games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 959–966. 15 indexed citations
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Lee, Scott, et al.. (2017). AI-based playtesting of contemporary board games. 1–10. 30 indexed citations
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Nealen, Andy, et al.. (2017). SeekWhence a retrospective analysis tool for general game design. 1–6. 6 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron, et al.. (2017). Simulating strategy and dexterity for puzzle games. 8 indexed citations
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Khalifa, Ahmed, Aaron Isaksen, Julian Togelius, & Andy Nealen. (2016). Modifying MCTS for human-like general video game playing. OAR@UM (University of Malta). 2514–2520. 29 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron, et al.. (2016). Playing Games Across the Superintelligence Divide. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 89–97. 1 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron & Andy Nealen. (2016). A Statistical Analysis of Player Improvement and Single-Player High Scores. 2 indexed citations
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Mendes, André Sales, Julian Togelius, & Andy Nealen. (2016). Hyper-heuristic general video game playing. 1–8. 22 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron, et al.. (2015). Catch-Up: A Game in Which the Lead Alternates. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Munich University). 1(2). 4 indexed citations
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Isaksen, Aaron & Andy Nealen. (2015). Comparing Player Skill, Game Variants, and Learning Rates Using Survival Analysis. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 11(5). 15–21. 2 indexed citations
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Yi–Luen, Ellen, Jean-Claude Léon, Tracy Hammond, & Andy Nealen. (2011). Proceedings of the Eighth Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. 2 indexed citations
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Nealen, Andy, et al.. (2011). Towards minimalist game design. 38–45. 16 indexed citations
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Nealen, Andy. (2006). A Note on Laplacian Mesh Smoothing. 1 indexed citations

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