Gerhard+Trippen

a German mathematician, computer scientist and lecturer at the University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment at the [|Rotman School of Management]. He holds a M.Sc. from Saarland University, and a Ph.D. in 2006 from [|Hong Kong University of Science and Technology] under supervision of Rudolf Fleischer and Mordecai J. Golin, and was further affiliated with the [|University of British Columbia]. || toc =Arimaa Bot= As a chess player, Gerhard Trippen got fascinated about the game of Arimaa with its huge branching factor, and developed an own Arimaa bot dubbed //Rat//, which has a very selective search guided by pattern recognition and planning. At the Advances in Computer Games 12 conference 2009 in [|Pamplona], he elaborated on //Rat// and its search techniques. //Rat// follows a human way of thinking by first analyzing the root position, finding suitable plans, and then trying a certain highly selective number of moves. A tactical search, alpha-beta with some search extensions, ensures that the moves do not lead to too great a loss of material, by evaluating the leaf nodes with a very simple evaluation function considering only the material of both players.
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=Selected Publications=
 * Rudolf Fleischer, Gerhard Trippen (**2003**). //Experimental Studies of Graph Traversal Algorithms//. WEA 2003
 * Rudolf Fleischer, Gerhard Trippen (**2004**). //[|Kayles on the Way to the Stars]//. CG 2004
 * Gerhard Trippen (**2006**). //Competitive Graph Exploration and Localization//. Ph.D. thesis, [|Hong Kong University of Science and Technology], advisors Rudolf Fleischer and Mordecai J. Golin
 * Gerhard Trippen (**2009**). //Plans, Patterns and Move Categories Guiding a Highly Selective Search//. Advances in Computer Games 12, [|pdf]

=External Links=
 * [|Trippen Gerhard | LinkedIn]
 * [|Trippen, Gerhard | Department of Management], University of Toronto Mississauga
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Gerhard Trippen]
 * [|Gerhard Trippen at University of Toronto at Mississauga - RateMyProfessors.com]
 * [|Gerhard Trippen chess games - 365Chess.com]

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