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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Spring 2016
Ideal agent behaviour in multiagent environments depends on the behaviour of other agents. Consequently, acting to maximize utility is challenging since an agent must gather and exploit knowledge about how the other (potentially adaptive) agents behave. In this thesis, we investigate how an...
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Regret Minimization in Games and the Development of Champion Multiplayer Computer Poker-Playing Agents
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Recently, poker has emerged as a popular domain for investigating decision problems under conditions of uncertainty. Unlike traditional games such as checkers and chess, poker exhibits imperfect information, varying utilities, and stochastic events. Because of these complications, decisions at...
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Fall 2009
One way to create a champion level poker agent is to compute a Nash Equilibrium in an abstract version of the poker game. The resulting strategy is then used to play in the full game. With this approach, translation is required between the full and abstract games in order to use the...
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Fall 2009
Games have been used to evaluate and advance techniques in the field of Artificial Intelligence since before computers were invented. Many of these games have been deterministic perfect information games (e.g. Chess and Checkers). A deterministic game has no chance element and in a perfect...