Darse Billings, a Canadian computer scientist with a M.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (2006) on Computer Poker from University of Alberta. His research interests covers not only games of chance and incomplete information games like Roshambo, but also abtract strategy games, in particular Lines of Action, where his program Mona won the de facto world championship in 2000, defeating all of the top human players, and winning every game it played [1]. Darse Billings is creator and director of The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions [2] , co-founder and lead architect for the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group [3] , and designer of the pokerbots Loki, Poki, Sparbot, Vexbot, Hyperborean, Polaris, Maxwell, Qeqbot, etc., commercially licenced beside others to Poker Academy [4] and Stacked.
Darse Billings [5]

Selected Publication

1995 ...

• Darse Billings (1995). Computer Poker. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta, pdf
• Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (1998). Poker as a Testbed for Machine Intelligence Research. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
• Darse Billings, Denis Papp, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (1998). Opponent Modeling in Poker. AAAI/IAAI 1998,pdf

2000 ...

• Darse Billings (2000). Thoughts on RoShamBo. ICGA Journal Vol. 23, No. 1
• Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (2000). Mona and YL’s Lines of Action.
• Darse Billings (2000). The International RoShamBo Programming Competitions. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop ^[8]
• Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (2002). The Challenge of Poker. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134, No. 1-2, pdf
• Darse Billings (2003). Vexbot wins Poker tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 » 8th Computer Olympiad
• Darse Billings, Yngvi Björnsson (2003). Search and Knowledge in Lines of Action. Advances in Computer Games 10, pdf
• Darse Billings, Neil Burch, Aaron Davidson, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Terence Schauenberg, Duane Szafron (2003). Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker. IJCAI-03, Winner of the IJCAI / AAAI 2003 Distinguished Paper Award, pdf
• Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Terence Schauenberg, Neil Burch, Michael Bowling, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron (2004). Game-Tree Search with Adaptation in Stochastic Imperfect-Information Games. CG 2004

2005 ...

• Darse Billings (2006). Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta
• Darse Billings, Morgan Kan (2006). A Tool for the Direct Assessment of Poker Decisions. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3
• Darse Billings (2006). On the Importance of Embracing Risk in Tournaments. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4 ^[9]

Forum Posts

1990 ...

• rec.games.strategic by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992
  Awari? by Darse Billings, rgc, August 21, 1992 » Awari
• Analysis: Please include your rating! by Darse Billings, rgc, September 11, 1992
• how does go compare with chess? by Darse Billings, rgc, July 25, 1994

2000 ...

• Shredder wins in Graz after controversy by Darse Billings, CCC, December 09, 2003 » Shredder, WCCC 2003
• Shredder wins in Graz after controversy -- rebuttal by Darse Billings, CCC, December 21, 2003

External Links

• Darse's garish blue-green homepage
• Darse Billings' ICGA Tournaments
• Darse Billings - Canada | LinkedIn
• Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments by Darse Billings, ChessBase News, December 14, 2006
• Darse's No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Primer

References

1. ^ Mona and YL's Lines of Action Page
2. ^ RoShamBo Programming Competition
3. ^ CPRG Homepage
4. ^ Poker Academy
5. ^ At the semi-regular Tuesday Night Poker Tournament for chess geeks (photo: Jim Roy), Photo Gallery: Darse
6. ^ ICGA Reference Database(pdf)
7. ^ DBLP: Darse Billings
8. ^ RoShamBo Programming Competitions
9. ^ Chess News - Embracing Risk in Tournaments by Darse Billings, ChessBase News, December 14, 2006

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