Jun Nagashima, a Japanese computer scientist at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and before at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, with research interests in Endgame Search, Game-refinement theory, Mah Jong, killer-tree heuristic and lambda-search method. He is member of Hiroyuki Iida's games laboratory, where he wrote the Lines of Action program (T-T), which participated at the 7th and 8th Computer Olympiad. The program uses realization-probability search [1]. Jun Nagashima received his Ph.D. Towards master-level play of Shogi from JAIST [2], which covers the broad range of aspects in developing a strong Shogi program, specially referring Tacos, the four times Gold medal winner at Computer Olympiads [3], where Jun Nagashima is also member of the team headed by Tsuyoshi Hashimoto.
Jun Nagashim [4]

Selected Publications

• Jun Nagashima (2002). Realization-Probability Search: Its application to Shogi and LOA. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop
• Makoto Sakuta, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Endgame-search techniques developed in shogi: application to Lines of Action. JCIS 2002
• Jun Nagashima, Masahumi Taketoshi, Yoichiro Kajihara, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Iida (2002). An Efficient Use of Piece-Square Tables in Computer Shogi.
• Makoto Sakuta, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Jos Uiterwijk, Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Application of the killer-tree heuristic and the lambda-search method to lines of action. Information Sciences, Vol. 154, Nos. 3-4,
• Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Makoto Sakuta, Jos Uiterwijk, Hiroyuki Iida (2003). Automatic realization-probability search. Internal report, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu
• Hiroyuki Iida, Kazutoshi Takahara, Jun Nagashima, Yoichiro Kajihara, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto (2004). An Application of Game-Refinement Theory to Mah Jong. ICEC'2004
• Jun Nagashima (2007). Towards master-level play of Shogi. Ph.D. thesis, Supervisor Hiroyuki Iida, JAIST, pdf

External Links

• Jun Nagashima's ICGA Tournaments

References

1. ^ ICGA: Lines of Action by Mark Winands
2. ^ Jun Nagashima (2007). Towards master-level play of Shogi. Ph.D. thesis, Supervisor Hiroyuki Iida, JAIST, pdf
3. ^ Shogi at the Computer Olympiad
4. ^ Research Center for Computers and Games - Members
5. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)

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