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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143472803321

Titolo

Computers and games : First International Conference, CG'98, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-12, 1998 : proceedings / / H. Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

3-540-48957-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 335 p. 122 illus., 7 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1558

Disciplina

004.16

Soggetti

Microcomputers

Video games

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Search and Strategies -- Relevance Cuts: Localizing the Search -- Multi-cut Pruning in Alpha-Beta Search -- A Solution to the GHI Problem for Best-First Search -- Optimal Play against Best Defence: Complexity and Heuristics -- A Speculative Strategy -- An Adversarial Planning Approach to Go -- Learning and Pattern Acquisition -- First Results from Using Temporal Difference Learning in Shogi -- From Simple Features to Sophisticated Evaluation Functions -- A Two-Step Model of Pattern Acquisition: Application to Tsume-Go -- A Neural Network Program of Tsume-Go -- Distributed Decision Making in Checkers -- Theory -- Game Tree Algorithms and Solution Trees -- A New Heap Game -- Infinite Cyclic Impartial Games -- On the Complexity of Tsume-Go -- Extended Thermography for Multiple Kos in Go -- Go, Tsume-Shogi, and Heian-Shogi -- Computer Go: A Research Agenda -- Estimating the Possible Omission Number for Groups in Go by the Number of n-th Dame -- Relations between Skill and the Use of Terms -- A Survey of Tsume-Shogi Programs Using Variable-Depth Search -- Retrograde Analysis of the KGK Endgame in Shogi: Its Implications for Ancient Heian Shogi.