When is it better not to look ahead?

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 174, Issue 16-17, 2010, Pages 1323-1338

  Nau, Dana S ^a   Luštrek, Mitja ^b   Parker, Austin ^a,d   Bratko, Ivan ^c   Gams, Matjaž ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d Center for Computing Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Game tree search; Lookahead pathology; Minimax

Indexed keywords

BOARD GAMES; LOOK-AHEAD; MINIMAX; REAL-WORLD; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION RESULT; TREE MODELS; TREE SEARCH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; PATHOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77957756161     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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