SIKS-DKE Symposium: Monte-Carlo Search Goes General
9:00-12:15 Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Maastricht University, Department of Knowledge
Engineering
Maastricht, Bouillonstraat 8-10, room 0.015
The international symposium “Monte-Carlo Search
Goes General” will give an overview on recent
developments on the topic of Monte-Carlo search
techniques and related AI techniques for a wide
range of game domains. The symposium is sponsored
by SIKS and DKE. The event is part of the
advanced components stage of the educational
program for SIKS PhD-students. The symposium will
be followed by the public defence of Hendrik
Baier’s Ph.D. Thesis, entitled "Monte-Carlo Tree
Search Enhancements for One-Player and Two-Player
Domains".
Programme
9:00-9:15: Welcome (Dr. Mark Winands, Maastricht
University)
9:15-10:00: General Game Playing (Dr. Stephan
Schiffel, Reykjavik University)
10:00-10:30: Sequential Halving Hybrids (Tom
Pepels M.Sc., Maastricht University)
10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
10:45-11:30: Deep Learning for Go (Prof.
dr. Tristan Cazenave, Université Paris-Dauphine)
11:30-12:15: General Video Game AI (Prof. dr.
Simon Lucas, University of Essex)
16:00 hrs: Public defence by Hendrik Baier at Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht University.
