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Courses in Winter Term 2005/06  -  General Game Playing


Course title:  General Game Playing

Lecturer:  Prof. Thielscher

Module:  KRAI

Status:  advanced unit

SWS (lecture/tutorial/practical):  1/0/3

Credit points:  6

Examination method:  oral examination

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Course description:

A General Game Playing System is one that can accept a formal description of a game and play the game effectively without human intervention. Unlike specialized game players, such as Deep Blue, GGP systems cannot rely on algorithms designed in advance for specific games. GGP expertise depends on intelligence on the part of the game player and not just intelligence on the part of the programmer of the game player. For this reason, GGP is a good area in which to develop and demonstrate General AI techniques (such as knowledge representation, reasoning, learning, and rational behavior). This course is a hands-on introduction to GGP and, by extension, Artificial Intelligence. Theoretical background is provided through lectures, but the main pedagogical value of the course derives from the students´ work in using this theory to create GGP systems to compete with each other.

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