Gian Piero Favini, an Italian computer scientist and Ph.D. from University of Bologna with research interests in the Artificial Intelligence topics of machine learning, search algorithms, Knowledge representation, and incomplete information games with an extremely large belief state. Along with his advisor Paolo Ciancarini, he is co-author of the KriegSpiel program and two times Gold Medal winner Darkboard, written in Java [1] .
Gian Piero Favini [2]

Selected Publications

2006 ...

• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2006). Darkboard wins KriegSpiel tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 » 11th Computer Olympiad
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2007). A Program to Play Kriegspiel. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2007). Representing Kriegspiel States with Metapositions. IJCAI 2007, pdf
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2009). Detecting clones in game-playing software. ScienceDirect - Entertainment Computing
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2009). Monte Carlo Tree Search Techniques in the Game of Kriegspiel. IJCAI 2009, pdf
• Gian Piero Favini (2009). Darkboard wins KriegSpiel tournament. ICGA Journal, Vol. 32, No 2 » 14th Computer Olympiad

2010 ...

• Gian Piero Favini (2010). The Dark Side of the Board: Advances in Chess Kriegspiel. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-06 as pdf ^[4]
• Andrea Bolognesi, Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2010). Progress through uncertainty in some Kriegspiel endings. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games. 2(2): 99-110
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2010). Monte Carlo Tree Search in Kriegspiel. Artificial Intelligence. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2010.04.017
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2010). Retrograde analysis of Kriegspiel endgames. IEEE Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Games, Copenhagen.
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2010). Algorithmic explorations of a well known war-game. 6th Meeting on Game Theory, SING, Palermo.
• Paolo Ciancarini, Gian Piero Favini (2010). Playing the perfect Kriegspiel endgame. Theoretical Computer Science, 411 (40-42): 3563-3577.

External Links

• Gian Piero Favini
• Gian Piero Favini's ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ Gian Piero Favini - CV (pdf)
2. ^ Gian Piero Favini
3. ^ A page on Kriegspiel
4. ^ Dap Hartmann (2011). Review: The Dark Side of the Board: Advances in Chess Kriegspiel. ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3

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