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Winning Strategies for the Game of Chomp: A Practical Approach (Chomp 게임의 승리 전략: 실천적 고찰)

  • Cho, In-Sung
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.151-166
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    • 2018
  • The rule of the game of Chomp is simple and the existence of a winning strategy can easily be proved. However, the existence tells us nothing about what strategies are winning in reality. Like in Chess or Baduk, many researchers studied the winning moves using computer programs, but no general patterns for the winning actions have not been found. In the paper, we aim to construct practical winning strategies based on backward induction. To do this we develop how to analyze Chomp and prove and find the winning strategies of the simple games of Chomp.

Performance Enhancement for Device-to-Device Under laying Cellular Network Using Coalition Formation Game

  • Radwan, Amr;Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.1415-1423
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    • 2016
  • Interference in device-to-device (D2D) communication underlaying cellular network needs to be elaborately investigated because of channel sharing. The objective is to improve the quality of D2D communications while maintaining high performance for cellular users. In this paper, we solve the above problem by jointly considering channel allocation and power control using coalition formation game. Our cooperative game theoric approach allows to enhance network-wide performance. We design a merge-and-split algorithm to deal with the complexity of the combinatorial structure in coalition formation problem. The analytical and numerical results show that our algorithm converges to a stable point which achieves high network performance.

A Candidate Generation System based on Probabilistic Evaluation in Computer Go (확률적 평가에 기반한 컴퓨터 바둑의 후보 생성 시스템)

  • Kim, Yeong-Sang;Yu, Gi-Yeong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2000
  • If there exists a model that calculates the proper candidate position whenever the game of Go is in progress, it can be used for setting up the prototype of the candidate generation algorithm without using case-based reasoning. In this paper, we analyze Go through combinatorial game theory and on the basis of probability matrix (PM) showing the difference of the territory of the black and the white. We design and implement a candidate generation system(CGS) to find the candidates at a situation in Go. CGS designed in this paper can compute Influence power, safety, probability value(PV), and PM and then generate candidate positions for a present scene, once a stone is played at a scene. The basic strategy generates five candidates for the Present scene, and then chooses one with the highest PV. CGS generates the candidate which emphasizes more defence tactics than attack ones. In the opening game of computer Go, we can know that CGS which has no pattern is somewhat superior to NEMESIS which has the Joseki pattern.

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Game Based Cooperative Negotiation among Cloud Providers in a Dynamic Collaborative Cloud Services Platform (게임 이론 기반 동적 협력 클라우드 서비스 플랫폼에서의 클라우드 공급자간 협상 기법)

  • Hassan, Mohammad Mehedi;Huh, Eui-Nam
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.105-117
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    • 2010
  • In recent years, dynamic collaboration (DC) among cloud providers (CPs) is becoming an inevitable approach for the widely use of cloud computing and to realize the greatest value of it. In our previous paper, we proposed a combinatorial auction (CA) based cloud market model called CACM that enables a DC platform among different CPs. The CACM model allows any CP to dynamically collaborate with suitable partner CPs to form a group before joining an auction and thus addresses the issue of conflicts minimization that may occur when negotiating among providers. But how to determine optimal group bidding prices, how to obtain the stability condition of the group and how to distribute the winning prices/profits among the group members in the CACM model have not been studied thoroughly. In this paper, we propose to formulate the above problems of cooperative negotiation in the CACM model as a bankruptcy game which is a special type of N-person cooperative game. The stability of the group is analyzed by using the concept of the core and the amount of allocationsto each member of the group is obtained by using Shapley value. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the behaviors of the proposed approaches.

Ant Colony System for solving the traveling Salesman Problem Considering the Overlapping Edge of Global Best Path (순회 외판원 문제를 풀기 위한 전역 최적 경로의 중복 간선을 고려한 개미 집단 시스템)

  • Lee, Seung-Gwan;Kang, Myung-Ju
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2011
  • Ant Colony System is a new meta heuristics algorithms to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems. It is a population based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. It was first proposed for tackling the well known Traveling Salesman Problem. In this paper, we propose the searching method to consider the overlapping edge of the global best path of the previous and the current. This method is that we first determine the overlapping edge of the global best path of the previous and the current will be configured likely the optimal path. And, to enhance the pheromone for the overlapping edges increases the probability that the optimal path is configured. Finally, the performance of Best and Average-Best of proposed algorithm outperforms ACS-3-opt, ACS-Subpath and ACS-Iter algorithms.