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Below is a duplicate of Craig Reynold's collection of pages along these lines:

Characters, improvisation, and ...

I'm not really sure what this page is about. I'm using it to collect references to autonomous characters that can improvise and react to their environment. The categories below are fairly arbitrary and overlap quite a bit. Items are listed in no particular order, other than new items have been added at the end of each section. Someday this will all be reorganized...

Characters

OZ Project CMU
AAAI-95 Spring Symposium on Interactive Story Systems: Plot and Character
The Virtual Theater Project (Stanford KSL)
Persona Project (Microsoft Research, see also)
- Research efforts related to Lifelike Computer Characters
- Planning-Based Control of Interface Animation (CHI 95 paper)
- bibliography
The Autonomous Agents Group MIT Media Lab, papers
Media Research Laboratory at NYU
- Behavioral Scripting: Method Acting for Synthetic Characters by Athomas Goldberg
- The Improv ProjectA System for Real-Time Animation of Behavior-based Interactive Synthetic Actors
Lifelike Computer Characters annual workshop sponsored by Microsoft. See also.
WavesWorld: A Testbed for 3D Semi-Autonomous Animated Characters
Swallows of Capistrano by Terry Franguiadakis
Evolution of Behavior in a Simulated Environment
About Behaviour Based Programming (HP Labs Bristol)
Reactive, Behavior-Based Intelligence (MIT Cog Shop)
Dogz, Catz, and Oddballz, computer pets from PF.Magic
The Improv Project (NYU MRL) real-time, behavior-based, interactive synthetic actors
The Puppetry Home Page
A List of Cognitive Models by Wheeler Ruml
Behaviors and Simulation by Francesca Barrientos
Behavior Construction Kits by Mitchel Resnick
Artificial Life meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents by Pattie Maes
Wan-Chan a virtual pet from Na Software
K-9 Cyber Companion Fujitsu Interactive (from the folks at Na Software?)
Extempo Systems Inc. improvisational characters for consumer software
Agents and Virtual Environments by Tim Finin, see also his AgentNews Webletter
Anthrobotics, Inc.
alma ("Science, AI, Neural Networks, Communication, Internet culture and more...")
Interactive Characters by Michael Powers at Petroglyph
Summary of Aristotle's The Poetics (and other books on drama) by Andrew Glassner.
Chatterbots:
- A collection of Natural Language Chatterbots by Simon Laven
- Barry DeFacto from Robitron Software Research
- Shallow Red from Neuromedia
- Julia, a Chatterbot
Bruce Blumberg on autonomous animated creatures (like Silas T. Dog in ALIVE)
Virtual Humans
- Virtual Humans / Humanoid Agents list of researchers
- Virtual Humans '96 conference report
- Virtual Humans 2 conference (VH2) 1997
- Autonomous virtual humans by Daniel Thalmann et al.
- Humana Virtualis
Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
- POPBUGS by Chris Thornton
- Braitenberg's Vehicles by John Wiseman
- Dawson's Margin Notes On Braitenberg's Vehicles
- 3D simulator software for Linux by Robin Edwards
- Braitenberg Creatures by Hogg, Martin, and Resnick
Critters: evolved behavior by Nick Turner
Sniffy the Virtual Rat
Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities a special issue of the Stanford (Electronic) Humanities Review
BB1: The Blackboard Control Architecture
International Workshop on Computational Humor
ComedyWriter Software
Best Behaviors (CGW article on "smart characters") by Barbara Robertson
First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation
Emotionware
James Cremer: behaviors for autonomous drivers in traffic simulation
- HCSM: Hierarchical Concurrent State Machine behavior system
- Behavior Modeling and Scenario Authoring for Virtual Environments
- A Directable Vehicle Behavior Model for Virtual Driving Environments (PostScript)
- Iowa Driving Simulator
- The Isaac Project
Desktop Theater: Automatic Generation of Expressive Animation (PDF) by Steve Strassmann
NICE Narrative Immersive Constructionist/Collaborative Environments
Autonomous Agents in Virtual Worlds by Stephen Chenney
Level Of Detail for Behaviours by Stephen Chenney
IMoTion real-time behavioral animation, by Mônica Costa and Bruno Feijó
Glossary of Virtual Worlds notes on interactive stories, by Avi Bar-Zeev
ANIMALS: Computer simulations of animal behavior by Toby Tyrrell
W. Grey Walter:
- Online Archive
- Historic robot restored to working order
- Discovery Channel online feature
The Stage as a Character Automatic Creation of Acts of God for Dramatic Effect, by Brad Rhodes
Intelligent Digital Actors from The Motion Factory
Faces:
- DECface by Chris Eveland and Keith Waters
- BT's 3D Talking Head (British Telecommunications)
- Facial Animation at UCSC Perceptual Science Laboratory
- Facial Animation Overview by Scott King
Entertainment and AI/Alife AAAI 1996 Workshop
Dramatis Personae: Casting Cyberselves by Sally Jane Norman
Modeling Autonomous Characters publications of Software Agents Group, MIT Media Lab.
Evolving Improvisational Intelligence by William H. Calvin
Fin Fin and TEO World
SIGGRAPH 96 courses:
- Life-Like, Believable Communication Agents
- Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality
Dramatic Interaction In Virtual Worlds by Maggie Cooper & Ivor Benjamin
Socially Intelligent Agents AAAI Fall Symposium Series, November 7-9, 1997
Virtual Pet Home Page
Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur / Tyrannosaurus Rex--The Unofficial Site
- press release from Viacom New Media
- story from Business Wire
Erasmatazz: interactive storytelling system by Chris Crawford et al.
Performance Animation by Richard Cray
Emotion Research Computational Models of Affect
Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors (a hardcopy book) by R. Trappl and P. Petta
Tamagotchi the pocket-size virtual pet from Bandai. There is a Java-based simulator.
A Paradigm for Action Selection dissertation work by Phil Goetz
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Creativity

Computer Generated Writing by Marius Watz
An implemented model of punning riddles (JAPE) by Kim Binsted
Computers at the dawn of creativity by Robert Matthews, in New Scientist
The Interactive Fiction Page by Scott Neal Reilly
Creativity Research at Georgia Tech
Creativity research by Margaret Boden of the University of Sussex
Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator a reconstruction by Warren Sack of James Meehan's classic program Tale-spin.
Creative Cognition Lab at Hampshire College and some of their projects
EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence) by David Cope
Are Computers Approaching Human-Level Creativity? (1997 Stanford symposia)
Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Physically-based animated figures

Boston Dynamics Inc.
Georgia Tech GVU: Simulating Human Motion
Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at UPenn, the home of Jack
Animats: artificial animals
KATrix Inc. (see also)
Character Studio from Kinetix
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Navigation, reactive steering, and path planning

Navigational overview by Bjørn Reese
An optimal pathfinder for vehicles in real-world digital terrain maps by F. Markus Jönsson
Robot Motion Planning from Geometry in Action
Smart unit navigation by John Christian L�nningdal
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Games

Galapagos an artificial life game with a learning, 3d, legged character from Anark.
BotMUD AI agents in an unfriendly world
A posposed softbot for Netrek by Colin MacDonald
Creatures: a CyberLife project from Millennium Interactive and Inscape/WI.
Artificial Intelligence in Games by Steve Woodcock
Games for programmers:
- Robot Auto Racing Simulation, see also the RARS Link Page, and this.
- C++ Robots
- Bolo (Swarthmore)
- Bolo (U of Chicago)
- The Robot Club (for kids)
- Table-Tennis Simulator used for Neural Networks
- Xconq
- RoboCup RoboSoccer Simulator League
  - Soccer Server
  - RoboCup Practice Server
- RoboSport
Machine Learning in Games by Jay Scott
The Mud Connector
MUD Area building software and links
Quake Bots (autonomous players for the game Quake)
- What is a QuakeBot?
- QuakeBot C/S
- Deathmatch 'bot
- mikeBot
- Bot Author's Guild Client-Side Autonomous QuakeBots
- Quake Domain - Quake Bots
- Automated Opponents GameSpot's Witchfinder's Quake for the People
- Den's Quake Bots Page
- Slipgate Central - Addons:Bots
Using Games as an Experimental Testbed for AI Research at IJCAI-97
Excalibur Adaptive Constraint-based Agents in Artificial Environments
Creating Intelligent Creatures (CGW article) by Donna Coco
Game Programming by Amit J. Patel
GAIA engine for simulation of behavior from Appeal
Behavior for games in The Symbolic Theory of Game Design
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Ecological models, participatory ecosystems

Participatory Artificial Life Demonstration
TechnoSphere
ALife Garden
Cambrian Explosion from Emergent Software
PolyWorld an Artificial Life System and Computational Ecology, by Larry Yaeger (see also this material at INA's MediaPort)
Biotopia 2.1
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Robots

Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Tech
CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group
Sussex Evolutionary Robotics
ARPA Real Time Planning and Control Program for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
IS Robotics Corporation
Khepera autonomous desktop robot, and a simulator for it.
Self Sufficiency Project VUB AI lab
Down to the Sea in Robots autonomous underwater vehicles
Robot soccer
- RoboCup: The World Cup Robot Soccer
- ICMAS-96 workshop on RoboCup
- RoboSoccer: Collaborative and Adversarial Planning and Learning
- ASCII Robot Soccer competition between autonomous players
- Robotic Soccerby Peter Stone
NRaD Robotics autonomous vehicles
Robot Simulators on the Net
International Robotics Football Tournament at ECAL
A Computational Model of Driving for Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicle Systems University of Texas at Arlington
Collective Behavior Cooperative Mobile Robotics -- UCLA
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Bibliography by Deborah Stacey
Obstacle avoidance:
- Avoiding obstacles by Chris Thornton
- Tele-autonomous Obstacle Avoidance by Johann Borenstein and Yoram Koren
NavLab: Autonomous Navigation
A Reactive System for Off-Road Autonomous Driving
Predictive Control of Mobile Robots
Robust Obstacle Avoidance in Unknown and Cramped Environments
RACCOON: Car Following at Night
ALVINN Project (Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network)
Autonomous Vehicle Path Following and Obstacle Avoidance Simulations by Art Rankin
Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory Ohio State University
Movies of Autonomous vehicles at SHARP (including obstacle avoidance, cross traffic, and parking)
Lateral guidance for Advanced vehicle control systems
Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems and its Autonomous Robotics Competitions
Sixth Annual Mobile Robot Competition at AAAI-97
The Artificial Inchworm Study
ARPA Real Time Planning and Control Program
Day of the Dolphinoid (and Ethorobotics of Dolphinoids) by Douglas Moreman related to Ridge Trek a project to explore the Mid Atlantic Ridge with autonomous microsubmarines.
RobotZoo SGI and TIME Magazine
Cool Robot Of The Week from NASA
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Control theory

Cybernetics (Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine) by Norbert Wiener
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) by The Control Systems Group (CSG)

Agents

Intelligent Software Agents
Intelligent Agents II Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
An article from The Economist on Software Agents
The Animate Agent Project (University of Chicago)
Agents Info
firefly
International Conference on Autonomous Agents
- Autonomous Agents '97
- Autonomous Agents '98
A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents by Stan Franklin and Art Graesser
The Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory (UMass Amherst)
IBM Intelligent Agent page
Animated Interface Agents: Making Them Intelligent (in conjunction with IJCAI-97)
The Agent Society
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Multi-agent systems

Boids: model of bird flocking
Self-Organization in Large Populations of Mobile Robots (Cem Ünsal)
CACTUS: multi-agent crowd models (for police training)
SFI Swarm: systems of concurrently interacting agents
Soar/IFOR (simulated fighter pilots) see also Soar IFOR Project
Agentsheets design your own SimCity^TM-like interactive agent-based system
Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, by Mitchel Resnick
Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS '96) Workshops:
- Animal Societies as an Alternative Metaphor Basis for DAI
- Learning, Interaction and Organizations in Multiagent Environments
Multi-Agents, Agent Modeling, Teamwork, Intelligent Agents by Milind Tambe
MAGMA Modelling Autonomous aGents in a Multi-Agent world
CDPS The Maine Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group
Cocoa (formerly KidSim)
Intelligent Simulated Forces and Computer Controlled Hostiles... by the Computer Generated Forces group at the UCF Institute for Simulation and Training
Economic Simulation Conference Conference Proceedings
Modeling Audience Group Behavior by Nuria Oliver and Stephen Intille
The @gency by Serge Stinckwich
Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions by Y. Uny Cao, Alex S. Fukunaga, and Andrew B. Kahng (UCLA 1996).
Complexity and Social Behaviour by Octavio Miramontes
Vehicle Movements in A Microscopic Traffic Simulator for Evaluation of Dynamic Traffic Management Systems by Yang Qi and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Sugarscape and the book Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell. See also this feature at Discovery Online.
FoMAS '97 2nd UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (Dec 1997)
The Emergent Systems Group of Coopers & Lybrand uses multiple agent systems to model decision making and trends in various simulations of real world marketplaces.
Center for Computable Economics
FOMAS '97 2nd UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (Dec 1997)
The Ants: A Community of Microrobots and their social behavior
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See also

Information on the Adaptive Behavior journal and the International Society for Adaptive Behavior