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Nicolas Arturo Barriga Richards

Profesor

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Artificial Intelligence, Heuristic Search, Videogames, Procedural Content Generation

Educación

  •  Ingenieria Informatica, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2009
  •  Ingenieria Informatica, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2006
  •  Ingeniero Civil Informatico, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2009
  •  Computing Science, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA. Canada, 2017

Experiencia Académica

  •   Principal Instructor Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

    Science

    Edmonton, Canada

    2015 - 2015

  •   Profesor Conferenciante Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Talca, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Software Engineer Full Time

    ALMA

    Chile

    2007 - 2008

  •   Software Engineer Full Time

    Gemini Observatory

    Chile

    2010 - 2012


 

Article (14)

Biome Generation Tool: A Mixed-Initiative Software for the Procedural Generation of Biomes

Sepulveda, Gabriel K.; Besoain, Felipe; von Brand, Sven; Barriga, Nicolas A.

Article ISI
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL  (2023)

Developing 360° Virtual Tours for Promoting Tourism in Natural Parks in Chile

Stappung, Yazmina; Aliaga, Camila; Cartes, Jorge; Jego, Liza; Reyes-Suarez, Jose Antonio; Barriga, Nicolas A.; Besoain, Felipe

Article ISI
SUSTAINABILITY  (2023)

A Virtual Reality System for Fruit Processing Line Personnel Training: A Usability Study Liza Jego, Nicols Barriga and Felipe Besoain

Jego, Liza; Barriga, Nicolas A.; Besoain, Felipe

Article SCOPUS
 (2022)

Adversarial Search Algorithms Performance in the Yote Game

Torres, Luis I.; Barriga, Nicolas A.

Article SCOPUS
 (2022)

Developing Computing Competencies Without Restrictions

Vidal-Silva, Cristian; Barriga, Nicolas A.; Ortega-Cordero, Franco; Gonzalez-Lopez, Javiera; Jimenez-Quintana, Claudia; Pezoa-Fuentes, Claudia; Veas-Gonzalez, Ivan

Article ISI
IEEE ACCESS  (2022)

Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Programming Courses for a Video Game Development Program in Chile

Barriga, Nicolas A.; Besoain, Felipe

Article ISI
COMPUTING IN SCIENCE ENGINEERING  (2020)

Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections by Geofencing and Contextualized Messages With a Gamified App, UBESAFE: Design and Creation Study

Besoain F.; Perez-Navarro A.; Aviñó C.J.; Caylà J.A.; Barriga N.A.; de Olalla P.G.

Article ISI SCOPUS
JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH  (2020)

Search, Abstractions and Learning in Real-Time Strategy Games A Dissertation Summary

Barriga, Nicolas A.

Article ISI
KUNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ  (2020)

A Short Introduction to Procedural Content Generation Algorithms for Videogames

Barriga, Nicolas A.

Article ISI SCOPUS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS  (2019)

Improving RTS Game AI by Supervised Policy Learning, Tactical Search, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Barriga, Nicolas A.; Stanescu, Marius; besoain, felipe; Buro, Michael

Article ISI SCOPUS
IEEE COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE  (2019)

Search, Abstractions and Learning in Real-Time Strategy Games

Barriga, Nicolas A.

Article
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz  (2019)

Game Tree Search Based on Nondeterministic Action Scripts in Real-Time Strategy Games

Barriga, Nicolas A.; Stanescu, Marius; Buro, Michael

Article
IEEE Transactions on Games  (2018)

The First MicroRTS Artificial Intelligence Competition

Ontanon, Santiago; Barriga, Nicolas A.; Silva, Cleyton R.; Moraes, Rubens O.; Lelis, Levi H. S.

Article ISI
AI MAGAZINE  (2018)

Game Tree Search Based on Non-Deterministic Action Scripts in Real-Time Strategy Games

Barriga, Nicolas Arturo; Stanescu, Marius; Buro, Michael

Article
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games  (2017)

ConferencePaper (4)

Exploring Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Videogames

Sepulveda G.K.; Besoain F.; Barriga N.A.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2020  (2019)

Introduction to Behavior Algorithms for Fighting Games

Gajardo I.; Besoain F.; Barriga N.A.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2020  (2019)

Combining a probabilistic sampling technique and simple heuristics to solve the dynamic path planning problem

Barriga N.A.; Solar M.; Araya-Lopez, M

ConferencePaper
Proceedings - International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC  (2010)

First year of ALMA site software deployment: Where everything comes together

González V.; Mora M.; Araya, R; Arredondo, D; Bartsch, M; Burgos P.; Ibsen, J; Reveco, J; Saez N.; Schemrl A.; Sepulveda, J; Shen, TC; Soto R.; Troncoso, N.; Zambrano M.; Barriga, N; Glendenning B.; Raffi G.; Kern, J.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering  (2010)

Proyecto (1)

Generación procedural de contenidos en videojuegos=> generando valor y reduciendo costos

Macrofacultad de Ingenieria, UTALCA (PE-2018-012)

Proyecto
2018-2018
Director(a)

18
Nicolas Barriga

Profesor

Escuela de Ingeniería en Desarrollo de Videojuegos y Realidad Virtual

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

5
Felipe Besoain

Académico

Bioinformática

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

1
Constanza Jacques

Investigadora

Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAPJGol)

Barcelona, España

1
Cristian Vidal

Profesor

Departamento de Visualización Interactiva y Realidad Virtual

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile