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2007

Bowling, Michael, Johanson, Michael, Zinkevich, Martin, Piccione, Carmelo

Technical report TR07-14. Extensive games are a powerful model of multiagent decision-making scenarios with incomplete information. Finding a Nash equilibrium for very large instances of these games has received a great deal of recent attention. In this paper, we describe a new technique for...

2004

Cutumisu, M., McNaughton, M., Parker, D., Schaeffer, Jonathan, Redford, J., Szafron, Duane

Technical report TR04-05. Recently, some researchers have argued that generative design patterns (GDPs) can leverage the obvious design re-use that characterizes traditional design patterns into code re-use. This paper provides additional evidence that GDPs are both useful and productive. ...

1993

Lake, Robert, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Lu, Paul

Technical report TR93-13. Chess endgame databases, while of important theoretical interest, have yet to make a significant impact in tournament chess. In the game of checkers, however, endgame databases have played a pivotal role in the success of our World Championship challenger program...

Fall 2013

Vafadost, Mostafa

Given nothing but the generative model of the environment, Monte Carlo Tree Search techniques have recently shown spectacular results on domains previously thought to be intractable. In this thesis we try to develop generic techniques for temporal abstraction inside MCTS that would allow the...

2011

Slaughter, S., Bostrom, A.M., Cummings, G.G., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Squires, J.E.

Background: Defining what constitutes a resident care unit in nursing home research is both a conceptual and practical challenge. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence in support of a definition of care unit in nursing homes by demonstrating: (1) its feasibility for use in data collection,...