Editorial: Darts, Connect Four and the 2022 Computer Olympiad

POOL AT THE 10th COMPUTER OLYMPIAD

The first Computational 8 Ball Tournament was held at the 10 th Computer Olympiad in Taiwan this past September, 2005. In this report, I will describe some of the characteristics of the game of 8 ball which make it interesting to model computationally. I will also describe the software system that we developed to allow competitors to play a fair game, in the presence of noise. I conclude with a...

What Will 2022 Look Like? The IEEE CS 2022 Report

Online Adaptive Agent for Connect Four

One of the challenges that a computer game developer meets when creating a new game is setting the difficulty “right”. Not only it is a complicated task to balance all the game parameters, but the developer also needs to cater for players with very different skill levels. Providing a game with an ability to automatically scale the difficulty depending on the current player would make the games ...

A Knowledge-Based Approach of Connect-Four

A Shannon C-type strategy program, VICTOR, is written for Connect-Four, based on nine strategic rules. Each of these rules is proven to be correct, implying that conclusions made by VICTOR are correct. Using VICTOR, strategic rules where found which can be used by Black to at least draw the game, on each 7 × (2n) board, provided that White does not start at the middle column, as well as on any ...

Connect Four with Glioblastoma Stem Cell Factors

Hierarchical cell state models, wherein a few stem-like tumor-propagating cells repopulate the tumor after therapy, are often invoked in cancer. Suvà et al. demonstrate a plastic developmental hierarchy in glioma cell populations by characterizing the epigenetic states of phenotypically distinct cells and identifying four factors sufficient to reprogram differentiated cells into a tumorigenic s...