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2009

Mueller, Martin

Technical report TR09-09. The 14th Computer Olympiad took place in Pamplona, Spain from May 11-18, 2009. The Fuego program won the 9 times 9 Go competition, and took second place in 19 times 19 Go. This report provides some analysis of the games played by Fuego in the competition. | TRID-ID...

2010

Müller, Martin

Technical report TR10-08. A Human vs Computer Go competition took place in Barcelona, Spain on July 20, 2010. This report provides a report and some analysis of the games played by FUEGO-GB PROTOTYPE in this event. The program played well in its 9 x 9 games with White, winning against...

2012

Lanctot, Marc, Gibson, Richard, Burch, Neil, Szafron, Duane

In large extensive form games with imperfect information, Counterfactual Regret Minimization (CFR) is a popular, iterative algorithm for computing approximate Nash equilibria. While the base algorithm performs a full tree traversal on each iteration, Monte Carlo CFR (MCCFR) reduces the per...

Fall 2009

Kerr, Christopher

The creation of rich, immersive game worlds is one of the major goals for designers of modern story-based games. The inclusion of unique and interesting dialogues for all of a game's non-player characters (NPCs), especially the secondary NPCs, does a great deal to increase the believability of...

Spring 2016

Gee, Domini J

Narrative in videogames remains a frequently discussed topic in game studies. In 1997, two books offered differing points of view on the value of videogames as storytelling mediums: Janet Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodek and Espen Aarseth’s Cybertext. In the former, though Murray refers to the...

1992

Schaeffer, Jonathan

Technical report TR92-19. In August 1992, the first man versus machine world championship took place. The champion, Dr. Marion Tinsley, is arguably the greatest checkers player that ever lived. The challenger was the computer checkers program Chinook, a 3 year team effort from the University of...

2009

Bowling, Michael, Zinkevich, Martin, Waugh, Kevin, Lanctot, Marc

Technical report TR09-15. Sequential decision-making with multiple agents and imperfect information is commonly modeled as an extensive game. One efficient method for computing Nash equilibria in large, zero-sum, imperfect information games is counterfactual regret minimization (CFR). In the...

2012

Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Hutchinson, A., Cummings, G.G., Cranley, L.A., Bostrom, A.M.

Background: This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older...

2013

Estabrooks, C. A., Ghandour, E. K., Légaré, F., Grimshaw, J., Attieh, R., Ouimet, M., Gagnon, M., Roch, G.

Background With the persistent gaps between research and practice in healthcare systems, knowledge translation (KT) has gained significance and importance. Also, in most industrialized countries, there is an increasing emphasis on managing chronic health conditions with the best available...

Fall 2017

Mattar, Sally J

Research and Development (R&D) projects can be both innovative and highly uncertain. Allowing for managerial flexibility and adopting real options methods and incorporating technology readiness level scales to assess the maturity of technologies progressing through development stages, can help...