The Environment Interface Standard (EIS) is a Java-based interface standard for connecting agents to controllable entities in an environment such as a game. The interface provides support for managing the connection (e.g., for pausing and terminating an environment) and for interaction between agents and entities that are available in an environment (e.g., bots in a game). An agent that is connected to a controllable entity receives percepts from and can send actions to that entity. Percepts inform the agent about the state of the entity and its environment. Actions tell the entity which actions to perform in its environment. Several example implementations of environments are available @github.com/eishub. A default implementation of the EIS interface is also provided.
EnvironmentInterfaceStandard methods should not be made final. This restricts
extensions too much (comments should be sufficient to tell that one should know
what one is doing when certain methods are overridden)
EnvironmentInterfaceStandard methods should not be made final. This restricts extensions too much (comments should be sufficient to tell that one should know what one is doing when certain methods are overridden)