Search and Planning Under Incomplete Information :
[Book]
a Study Using Bridge Card Play
by Ian Frank.
London
Springer London
1998
(xix, 340 pages)
Distinguished Dissertations.
Introduction --;A good deal of Bridge literature --;Planning literature --;The Bridge search space size --;Proof-planning: solving independent goals using tactics and methods --;Search in games with incomplete information-. Identifying the best strategy: tackling non-locality --;Interleaving plans with dependencies --;Re-introducing neglected actions --;Overall architecture --;Results --;Conclusions --;An overview of commercial computer Bridge systems --;Generating explanations --;Further examples --;User manual --;Code.-
Ginsberg's program fared poorly in the 1997 Bridge championships, but Ginsberg himself reports very promising results [4] on a hard set of complete Bridge deals taken from the Bridge tutoring program Bridge Master.