The evolution of blackjack strategies

2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003 - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2474-2481

  Kendall, G ^a   Smith, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

BLACKJACK STRATEGIES; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 4344642653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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