Computer games : Computer games : workshop on computer games, CGW 2013, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013 : revised selected papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Computer Games Workshop, CGW 2013, held in Beijing, China, in August 2013, in conjunction with the Twenty-third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to computer games. They discuss six games that are played by humans in practice: Chess, Domineering, Chinese Checkers, Go, Goofspiel, and Tzaar. Moreover, there are papers about the Sliding Tile Puzzle, an application, namely, Cooperative Path-Finding Problems, and on general game playing. Front Matter....Pages I-XI Monte-Carlo Fork Search for Cooperative Path-Finding....Pages 1-15 Building Large Compressed PDBs for the Sliding Tile Puzzle....Pages 16-27 Monte Carlo Tree Search in Simultaneous Move Games with Applications to Goofspiel....Pages 28-43 Decision Trees for Computer Go Features....Pages 44-56 UCT Enhancements in Chinese Checkers Using an Endgame Database....Pages 57-70 Automated Generation of New Concepts from General Game Playing....Pages 71-80 WALTZ: A Strong Tzaar-Playing Program....Pages 81-96 Perfectly Solving Domineering Boards....Pages 97-121 How Relevant Are Chess Composition Conventions?....Pages 122-131 Back Matter....Pages 133-133