[freeciv-ai] Paper of possible interest.

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just came across a research paper that may be of interest to some of 
you:
"How qualitative spatial reasoning can improve strategy game AIs"
Kenneth D. Forbus, James V. Mahoney, Kevin Dill

Abstract: "Spatial reasoning is a major source of difficulties for 
strategy game AIs. We conjecture that qualitative spatial reasoning 
techniques can help overcome these difficulties. We briefly review the 
relevant qualitative reasoning ideas, and outline four potential 
advantages of our approach. We describe two explorations in progress: 
How visual routines can be used to quickly compute qualitative spatial 
descriptions for war games, and how qualitative descriptions can help 
in path-finding."
It's 6 pages long.  You can download it from 
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/426644.html (see the download links at the 
upper right corner of the page).
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas