No-limit Texas Hold'em Poker agents created with evolutionary neural networks

CIG2009 - 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 125-131

  Nicolai, Garrett ^a   Hilderman, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-EVOLUTION; CURRENT QUALITY; EVOLUTIONARY HEURISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; EVOLUTIONARY NEURAL NETWORK; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK; GAME SPACE; HYBRID METHOD; IMPERFECT INFORMATION; NON-LINEAR; STATE SPACE; TEXAS HOLD'EM;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 71549152823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2009.5286485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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