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The Rubber Band
The Rubber Band is the third Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its publication in 1936 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in six issues of "The Saturday Evening Post" (February 29 – April 4, 1936). Appearing in one 1960 paperback edition titled "To Kill Again," "The Rubber Band" was also collected in the omnibus volume "Five of a Kind" (Viking 1961).
Plot introduction.
"The Rubber Band
-player characters (characters controlled by the computer and usually modeled as intelligent agents). This adjustment, however, should be made with moderation, to avoid the 'rubber band' effect. One example of this effect in a racing game would involve the AI driver's vehicles becoming significantly faster when behind the player's vehicle, and significantly slower while in front, as if the two vehicles were connected by a large rubber band.
A traditional implementation of such an agent's intelligence is to use behavior rules, defined