Toward a competitive pool-playing robot

Computer

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-53

  Greenspan, Michael ^a   Lam, Joseph ^a   Godard, Marc ^a   Zaidi, Imran ^a   Jordan, Sam ^a   Leckie, Will ^b   Anderson, Ken ^c   Dupuis, Donna ^d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Nortel

^c Larus Technologies

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 40449085160     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2008.33     Document Type: Article

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