[computer-go] UCT outside of go?

[Nicholas Halderman]

In case anyone else was interested, yes, the AAAI general game-playing
competition has just started.  You can find instructions to join the mailing
list on the "resources" page at the site (games.stanford.edu) and evidently
the games from the competition are being broadcast "live" online.  If it's
run like last year's competition (which I strongly suspect it is), then
there are several preliminary rounds before the on-site final, with later
rounds weighted more heavily so as not to punish machines that are still
learning in the early rounds when they first face strong competition, so you
could in fact join late with little penalty.  (The tournament director
stated this last point in his response to me.)

It's an interesting field, and I do recommend that people check it out if
they're curious.  It helps push games back towards the realm of "big AI" for
a while.  (Measurable goals tend to fall eventually. ;)  Neat stuff.
-Nick

On 6/3/07, Peter Drake <drake at lclark.edu> wrote:
>
> I don't know, but I'd like to try it on the AAAI's general game-playing
> competition. Does anyone know if it's still running? The only site I could
> find gives a past date as Real Soon Now:
> http://games.stanford.edu/competition.html
>
> I didn't get any reply from the address listed. Does anyone else know
> anything?
>
> Peter Drake
> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/ <http://www.lclark.edu/%7Edrake/>
>
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Darren Cook wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of UCT being used in games other than go, or outside
> games altogether, such as travelling salesman problem, or some
> business-related scheduling/optimizing/searching problem domain?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren
>
>
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