Computers and Games

Third International Conference, CG 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-27, 2002, Revised Papers

By: Jonathan Schaeffer (Editor), Martin MÃ¼ller (Editor), Yngvi BjÃ¶rnsson (Editor)

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The Computers and Games (CG) series began in 1998 with the objective of showcasing new developments in arti?cial intelligence (AI) research that used games as the experimental test-bed. The ?rst two CG conferences were held at Hamamatsu,Japan(1998,2000).ComputersandGames2002(CG2002)wasthe third event in this biennial series. The conference was held at the University of Alberta(Edmonton,Alberta,Canada),July25-27,2002.Theprogramconsisted of the main conference featuring refereed papers and keynote speakers, as well as several side events including the Games Informatics Workshop, the Agents in Computer Games Workshop, the Trading Agents Competition, and the North American Computer Go Championship. CG 2002 attracted 110 participants from over a dozen countries. Part of the successoftheconferencewasthatitwasco-locatedwiththeNationalConference of the American Association for Arti?cial Intelligence (AAAI), which began in Edmonton just as CG 2002 ended. The CG 2002 program had 27 refereed paper presentations. The papers ranged over a wide variety of AI-related topics including search, knowledge, learning, planning, and combinatorial game theory. Research test-beds included one-player games (blackjack, sliding-tile puzzles, Sokoban), two-player games (Amazons, awari, chess, Chinese chess, clobber, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, O- ello, shogi), multi-player games (Chinese checkers, cribbage, Diplomacy, hearts, spades), commercial games (role-playing games, real-time strategy games), and novel applications (Post's Correspondence Problem).

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Distinguishing Gamblers from Investors at the Blackjack Table	p. 1
MOUSE([mu]): A Self-teaching Algorithm that Achieved Master-Strength at Othello	p. 11
Investigation of an Adaptive Cribbage Player	p. 29
Learning a Game Strategy Using Pattern-Weights and Self-play	p. 42
PDS-PN: A New Proof-Number Search Algorithm	p. 61
A Generalized Threats Search Algorithm	p. 75
Proof-Set Search	p. 88
A Comparison of Algorithms for Multi-player Games	p. 108
Selective Search in an Amazons Program	p. 123
Playing Games with Multiple Choice Systems	p. 142
The Neural MoveMap Heuristic in Chess	p. 154
Board Maps and Hill-Climbing for Opening and Middle Game Play in Shogi	p. 171
Solitaire Clobber	p. 188
Complexity of Error-Correcting Codes Derived from Combinatorial Games	p. 201
Analysis of Composite Corridors	p. 213
New Winning and Losing Positions for 7x7 Hex	p. 230
Position-Value Representation in Opening Books	p. 249
Indefinite Sequence of Moves in Chinese Chess Endgames	p. 264
ORTS: A Hack-Free RTS Game Environment	p. 280
Causal Normalization: A Methodology for Coherent Story Logic Design in Computer Role-Playing Games	p. 292
A Structure for Modern Computer Narratives	p. 308
Tackling Post's Correspondence Problem	p. 326
Perimeter Search Performance	p. 345
Using Abstraction for Planning in Sokoban	p. 360
A Small Go Board Study of Metric and Dimensional Evaluation Functions	p. 376
Local Move Prediction in Go	p. 393
Evaluating Kos in a Neutral Threat Environment: Preliminary Results	p. 413
Author Index	p. 429
Game Index	p. 431
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