Chips Challenging Champions
Games, Computers and Artificial Intelligence
- 1st Edition - April 17, 2002
- Imprint: North Holland
- Authors: J. Schaeffer, H.J. van den Herik
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 0 9 4 9 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 9 9 1 - 0
One of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOne of the earliest dreams of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence (AI) was to build computer programs that could play games as well as or better than the best human players. Despite early optimism in the field, the challenge proved to be surprisingly difficult. However, the 1990s saw amazing progress. Computers are now better than humans in checkers, Othello and Scrabble; are at least as good as the best humans in backgammon and chess; and are rapidly improving at hex, go, poker, and shogi. This book documents the progress made in computers playing games and puzzles. The book is the definitive source for material of high-performance game-playing programs.
Members of AI organizations and attendees at major AI conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, etc. All AI research groups in the world, including academia (most CS departments have one), industry and libraries. Computer-games aficionados.
A. Introduction.Games, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (J. Schaeffer, H.J. van den Herik).B. Puzzles.Disjoint Pattern Database Heuristics (R.E. Korf, A. Felner). Sokoban: Enhancing General Single-Agent Search Methods Using Domain Knowledge (A. Junghanns, J. Schaeffer). A probabilistic Approach to Solving Crossword Puzzles (M.L. Littman, G.A. Keim, N. Shazeer).C. Two-Player Perfect-Information Games.Deep Blue (M. Campbell, A.J. Hoane Jr, F.-h. Hsu). Improving Heuristic Min-Max Search by Supervised Learning (M. Buro). A Hierarchical Approach to Computer hex (V. Anshelevich). Computer shogi (H. Iida, M. Sakuta, J. Rollason). Computer go (M. Mueller).D. Imperfect Information and Stochastic Games.Programming Backgammon Using Self-Teaching Neural Nets (G. Tesauro). The Challenge of Poker (D. Billings, A. Davidson, J. Schaeffer, D. Szafron). World-championship-caliber Scrabble (B. Sheppard).E. Solved Games.Games Solved: Now and in the future (H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, J. van Rijswijck).Author Index.
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 17, 2002
- No. of pages (eBook): 378
- Imprint: North Holland
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444509499
- eBook ISBN: 9780080929910
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J. Schaeffer
Affiliations and expertise
University of Alberta, Department of Computing, Alberta, CanadaHv
H.J. van den Herik
Affiliations and expertise
Universiteit Maastricht, Department of Computer Science, Maastricht, The Netherlands