Wolfgang Konen presented his work on General Board Game Playing at CoG'2019, the Conference on Games, which took place between 20-23 of August in London, UK. You can find the poster here and the accompanying paper here on arXiv. The General Board Game (GBG) Playing Framework is about computer agents that learn game strategies...
Erzquell Prize for Master Thesis in MONREP Project
Ms. Samineh Bagheri has won the 3rd prize in the annual Erzquell award with her master thesis „Efficient Surrogate Assisted Optimization for Constrained Black-Box Problems“. My most cordial congratulations to her!
DAAD prize for Samineh Bagheri
The DAAD prize of Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) goes this year to Campus Gummersbach. The Iranian master student Samineh Bagheri from the Master programme "Automation & IT" is awarded with this prize. Cordial congratulations! © Schmülgen/FH Köln More information on this year's DAAD prize are found in the official press release of CUAS (in German)....
Prize for CIOP Bachelor Thesis in Reinforcement Learning
Mr. Markus Thill has won the first price in the 2012 OPITZ CONSULTING “Innovation in Informatics” contest. Many congratulations from the CIOP team!! Mr. Thill’s thesis advanced the state of the art in reinforcement learning for complex board games, here Connect Four. Read more about his work on this page.