Robert C. Holte, a Canadian computer scientist, and professor and Vice Dean of Science in the Department of Computing Science [1] at the University of Alberta. He holds a B.Sc. (1977) and M.Sc. (1980) in Computer Science from University of Manitoba, and a Ph.D. from Brunel University, England [2] . His research interests include machine learning, games of chance especially Poker, and abstraction and search. He is member of the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) [3] [4] .
Robert Holte[5]

Selected Publications

2000 ...

• 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 ...

• Yngvi Björnsson, Markus Enzenberger, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer (2005). Fringe Search: Beating A* at Pathfinding on Game Maps. pdf
• Ariel Felner, Uzi Zahavi, Jonathan Schaeffer, Robert Holte (2005). Dual Lookups in Pattern Databases. IJCAI 2005: 103-108, pdf
• Ariel Felner, Richard Korf, Ram Meshulam, Robert Holte (2007). Compressed Pattern Databases, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 30, pdf
• Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer (2008). Duality in permutation state spaces and the dual search algorithm. Artificial Intelligence 172
• Fan Yang, Joe Culberson, Robert Holte, Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner (2008). A General Theory of Additive State Space Abstractions. JAIR Volume 32

2010 ...

• Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ariel Felner (2010). Mechanical Generation of Admissible Heuristics. Chapter 3 in Heuristics, Probability, and Causality: A Tribute to Judea Pearl, edited by Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner, and Joseph Y. Halpern, pdf
• Ariel Felner, Uzi Zahavi, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Nathan Sturtevant, Zhifu Zhang (2011). Inconsistent Heuristics in Theory and Practice. Artificial Intelligence, pdf
• Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Robert Holte (2011). Probably Approximately Correct Heuristic Search. SOCS 2011, pdf
• Meir Goldenberg, Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Guni Sharon, Nathan Sturtevant, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer (2014). Enhanced Partial Expansion A*. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 50, pdf
• Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Neil Burch, Robert Holte (2014). Predicting the Performance of IDA* using Conditional Distributions. arXiv:1401.3493v1

External Links

• Dr. Robert Holte
• Robert Holte - PokerAI
• Robert Holte at Judea Pearl Symposium, 2010, YouTube Video
  

References

1. ^ Department of Computing Science
2. ^ Robert Holte - Personal Information (pdf)
3. ^ UACPRG - PokerAI
4. ^ CPRG Homepage
5. ^ Dr. Robert Holte
6. ^ Rob Holte - Publications
7. ^ DBLP: Robert C. Holte
8. ^ Robert Holte from Microsoft Academic Search

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