Advances in Computer Games: 15th International Conferences, ACG 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 35, 2017, Revised Selected Papers [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15^th International Conference, ACG 2017, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2017.The 19 revised full papers were selected from 23 submissions and cover a wide range of computer games. They are grouped in four classes according to the order of publication: games and puzzles, go and chess, machine learning and MCTS, and gaming.

Analytical Solution for EinStein w?rfelt nicht! with One Stone.- Toward Solving EinStein w?rfelt nicht!.- Analysis of Fred Horn's Gloop Puzzle.- Set Matching: An Enhancement of the Hales-Jewett Pairing Strategy Playing Hanabi Near-Optimally Optimal Play of the Farkle Dice GameDeep df-pn and its Efficient Implementations.- Improved Policy Networks for Computer Go.- Exploring Positional Linear Go.- Influence of Search Depth on Position Evaluation.- Evaluating Chess-like Games Using Generated Natural Language Descriptions.- Machine Learning in the Game of Breakthrough.- A Curling Agent Based on the Monte-Carlo Tree Search Considering the Similarity of the Best Action among Similar States.- Exploration Bonuses Based on Upper Confidence Bounds for Sparse Developing a 2048 Player with Backward Temporal Coherence Learning and Restart.- A Little Bit of Frustration Can Go a Long Way.- Automated Adaptation and Assessment in Serious Games: A Portable Tool for Supporting Learning.- An Analysis of Majority Voting in Homogeneous Groups for Checkers: Understanding Group Performance through Unbalance.- Yasol: An Open Source Solver for Quantified Mixed Integer Programs.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras