Monte Carlo tree search in Hex

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Arneson, Broderick ^a   Hayward, Ryan B ^a   Henderson, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; computational and artificial intelligence; computational intelligence; games; Hex

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-BETA; ALPHA-BETA SEARCHES; BOARD GAMES; CELL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE; GAMES; HEX; MONTE CARLO; RANDOM GAMES; SEARCH TREES; TREE SEARCH;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 78951491092     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2067212     Document Type: Article

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