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ICGA
2007
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Searching Solitaire in Real Time
This article presents a new real-time heuristic search method for planning problems with distinct stages. Our multistage nested rollout algorithm allows the user to apply separate...
Ronald Bjarnason, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
AIPS
2009
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Lower Bounding Klondike Solitaire with Monte-Carlo Planning
Despite its ubiquitous presence, very little is known about the odds of winning the simple card game of Klondike Solitaire. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use o...
Ronald Bjarnason, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
NIPS
2004
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Solitaire: Man Versus Machine
In this paper, we use the rollout method for policy improvement to analyze a version of Klondike solitaire. This version, sometimes called thoughtful solitaire, has all cards reve...
Xiang Yan, Persi Diaconis, Paat Rusmevichientong, ...