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There are very few software frameworks for steering behaviors that are publicly available for developing, evaluating, and sharing steering algorithms. Furthermore, there is no widely accepted methodology for how to evaluate results of agent steering simulations. This situation makes it difficult to identify the real underlying challenges in agent simulations and future research directions to advance the state of the art. With the hope of encouraging community participation to address these issues, we have released SteerSuite, a flexible but easy-to-use set of tools, libraries, and test cases for steering behaviors. The software includes enhanced test cases, an improved version of SteerBench, a modular simulation engine, a novel steering algorithm, and more. Care has been taken to make SteerSuite practical and easy-to-use, yet flexible and forward-looking, to challenge researchers and developers to advance the state of the art in steering.
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Singh, S., Kapadia, M., Faloutsos, P., Reinman, G. (2009). An Open Framework for Developing, Evaluating, and Sharing Steering Algorithms. In: Egges, A., Geraerts, R., Overmars, M. (eds) Motion in Games. MIG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5884. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10347-6_15
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