To investigate the fundamental causes of bloat, six artificial random binary tree search spaces are presented. Fitness is given by program syntax (the genetic programming genotype)...
Deeper searches in game-playing programs relying on the minimax principle generally produce better results. Theoretical analyses, however, suggest that in many cases minimaxing am...
This paper describes the results of applying a modified version of hierarchical task-network (HTN) planning to the problem of declarer play in contract bridge. We represent inform...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop
The Lego Mindstorms Robot Command eXplorer (RCX) is a popular robotics kit that provides an immediate "out-of-the-box" opportunity to explore software controlled robot i...
Branch, cut, and price (BCP) is an LP-based branch and bound technique for solving large-scale discrete optimization problems (DOPs). In BCP, both cuts and variables can be generat...