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Advances in Computer Games

15th International Conferences, ACG 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 3–5, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Mark H.M. Winands

    1. Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. H. Jaap van den Herik

    1. Leiden Centre of Data Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  3. Walter A. Kosters

    1. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10664)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Analytical Solution for “EinStein würfelt nicht!” with One Stone

    • François Bonnet, Simon Viennot
    Pages 1-12

  3. Toward Solving “EinStein würfelt nicht!”

    • François Bonnet, Simon Viennot
    Pages 13-25

  4. Analysis of Fred Horn’s Gloop Puzzle

    • Cameron Browne
    Pages 26-37

  5. Set Matching: An Enhancement of the Hales-Jewett Pairing Strategy

    • Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk
    Pages 38-50

  6. Playing Hanabi Near-Optimally

    • Bruno Bouzy
    Pages 51-62

  7. Optimal Play of the Farkle Dice Game

    • Matthew Busche, Todd W. Neller
    Pages 63-72

  8. Deep df-pn and Its Efficient Implementations

    • Song Zhang, Hiroyuki Iida, H. Jaap van den Herik
    Pages 73-89

  9. Improved Policy Networks for Computer Go

    • Tristan Cazenave
    Pages 90-100

  10. Exploring Positional Linear Go

    • Noah Weninger, Ryan Hayward
    Pages 101-114

  11. Influence of Search Depth on Position Evaluation

    • Matej Guid, Ivan Bratko
    Pages 115-126

  12. Evaluating Chess-Like Games Using Generated Natural Language Descriptions

    • Jakub Kowalski, Łukasz Żarczyński, Andrzej Kisielewicz
    Pages 127-139

  13. Machine Learning in the Game of Breakthrough

    • Richard J. Lorentz, Teofilo Erin Zosa IV
    Pages 140-150

  14. A Curling Agent Based on the Monte-Carlo Tree Search Considering the Similarity of the Best Action Among Similar States

    • Katsuki Ohto, Tetsuro Tanaka
    Pages 151-164

  15. Exploration Bonuses Based on Upper Confidence Bounds for Sparse Reward Games

    • Naoki Mizukami, Jun Suzuki, Hirotaka Kameko, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
    Pages 165-175

  16. Developing a 2048 Player with Backward Temporal Coherence Learning and Restart

    • Kiminori Matsuzaki
    Pages 176-187

  17. A Little Bit of Frustration Can Go a Long Way

    • Adam Boulton, Rachid Hourizi, David Jefferies, Alice Guy
    Pages 188-200

  18. Automated Adaptation and Assessment in Serious Games: A Portable Tool for Supporting Learning

    • Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Wim van der Vegt, Wim Westera
    Pages 201-212

  19. An Analysis of Majority Voting in Homogeneous Groups for Checkers: Understanding Group Performance Through Unbalance

    • Danilo S. Carvalho, Minh Le Nguyen, Hiroyuki Iida
    Pages 213-223

  20. Yasol: An Open Source Solver for Quantified Mixed Integer Programs

    • Thorsten Ederer, Michael Hartisch, Ulf Lorenz, Thomas Opfer, Jan Wolf
    Pages 224-233
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference, ACG 2017, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2017.The 19 revised full papers were selected from 23 submissions and cover a wide range of computer games. They are grouped in four classes according to the order of publication: games and puzzles, go and chess, machine learning and MCTS, and gaming.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Mark H.M. Winands

  • Leiden Centre of Data Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    H. Jaap van den Herik

  • Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Walter A. Kosters

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