This paper presents the application of fundamental Artificial Intelligence algorithms for the realization of programs capable of effectively playing the game of Reversi. This application has been developed as a final project for the course of Artificial Intelligence, held in the academic year 2012/2013 at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Salerno, Italy. Several agents have been deve...

Othello is a recent addition to the collection of games that have been examined within artificial intelligence. Advances have been rapid, yielding programs that have reached the level of world-championship play. This article describes the current champion Othello program, Iago. The work described here includes: (1) a task analysis of Othello; (2) the implemenation of a program based on this ana...

Modifying the arithmetic embedded in a processor can cause data to remain in encrypted form throughout processing. The theory has been prototyped in a superscalar pipelined general purpose processor that ‘works encrypted’, a new approach to encrypted computation that is reported here. The prototype runs encrypted machine code on encrypted data in registers and memory and on buses. The objective...

Recently, a great deal of interest has been paid in the field of Bayesian optimization to methods which take an information-theoretic approach to the design of acquisition functions. Such techniques equate the value of potential query points directly with their information content. The first of these techniques, developed separately as an informational approach to global optimization (IAGO) [9]...

According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, identity theft constituted the number one consumer complaint in the United States in 2006. Using state-level data for the 50 states for 2005, we find, among other things, that the rate of reported identity theft per 100,000 population is directly related to the unemployment rate, the percent of the population residing in urban areas, and the exten...