Ioannis Refanidis, a Greek computer scientist and associate professor at Department of Applied Informatics of University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He holds a Ph.D. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2001 on Heuristic State-Space Planning. His research interests include artificial intelligence, planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction, Semantic Web, mobile computing, game theory and educational software. Along with Nikolaos Papahristou, he worked and published on Temporal Difference Learning and Endgame Tablebases in Backgammon, and on playing backgammon variants using any board size [1].
Ioannis Refanidis [2]

Selected Publications

• Ioannis Refanidis, Neil Yorke-Smith (2010). A Constraint Based Programming Approach to Scheduling an Individual's Activities. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pdf
• Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis (2011). Training Neural Networks to Play Backgammon Variants Using Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings of Evogames 2011, Part I, LNCS 6624, pdf
• Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis (2011). Improving Temporal Difference Performance in Backgammon Variants. pdf
• Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis (2013). AnyGammon: Playing backgammon variants using any board size. FDG-2013, pdf
• Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis (2015). Constructing Pin Endgame Databases for the Backgammon Variant Plakoto. Advances in Computer Games 14

External Links

• Ioannis Refanidis - Home Page
• AI Center :: Dr Ioannis A. Refanidis

References

1. ^ Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis (2013). AnyGammon: Playing backgammon variants using any board size. FDG-2013, pdf
2. ^ Ioannis Refanidis - Home Page
3. ^ dblp: Ioannis Refanidis

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