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With the DynamicCities module created by one of our Google Summer Of Code students, large procedurally generated settlements were added to Terasology. However, buildings alone aren't enough to create a believable urban environment in a game - virtual cities should be populated with virtual citizens. Your task is to investigate models and techniques for AI for crowds - large groups of entities such as the population of a city. Our long-term goal is to be able to simulate the behavior of all inhabitants to a reasonable degree, avoiding static entities (a shopkeeper NPC always standing in front of his house).

Definition of 'Done'

• A collection of resources (scientific papers, books, blog posts, similar FOSS projects, etc.) is prepared.
• A short wrap-up of the research result is provided, e.g., as blog or forum post.

Where to start?

• Google Scholar is a good entry point to search for scientific papers. Talks on AI topics can also be found on YouTube.
• Think of other games simulating population behavior and look out for blog posts by the developers of the game in question.