Javhar publications
 

Some of my publications can be downloaded here, where copyright issues permit me to put my own stuff online.

By the way, my publications with Ryan Hayward establish my Erdős number at 3!

  • Set Colouring Games. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, 2006. (pdf, ps.zip)

  • Hex and Combinatorics. With R. Hayward. Discrete Mathematics Journal 306(19-20):2515-2528. (preprint ps.zip)

  • Binary Combinatorial Games. Combinatorial Game Theory conference, Banff, 2005. (pdf, ps.zip)

  • Dead Cell Analysis in Hex and the Shannon Game. With R. Hayward, Y. Björnsson, and M. Johanson. Graph Theory in Paris: Proceedings of a Conference in Memory of Claude Berge. A. Bondy et al (eds), Birkhäuser, 2007, 45-60. (ps.zip)
  • Solving 7x7 Hex with Domination, Fill-In, and Virtual Connections. With R. Hayward, Y. Björnsson, M. Johanson, M. Kan, and N. Po. Theoretical Computer Science 349 (2005) 123-139. Extended version of: Solving 7x7 Hex: Virtual Connections and Game State Reduction.Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges. Proceedings of the 10th Advances in Computer Games conference, Graz, 2003. H. J. van den Herik, H. Iida, E. Heinz (eds), pp. 261-278. (extended version ps.zip, conference version ps.zip)

  • Learning Goals in Sports Games. Game Developers Conference, San Jose, 2003. (word doc)

  • Search and Evaluation in Hex. Tech report, University of Alberta, 2003. (ps.zip)

  • Games Solved: Now and in the Future. With H. J. van den Herik and J. Uiterwijk. Artificial Intelligence Journal 134(1-2):277-311, 2002. Also in: Chips Challenging Champions, pp 321-355. H. J. van den Herik & J. Schaeffer, eds. Elsevier, 2002. (ps.zip)

  • Always Shoot: Using FIFA in the Classroom. With J. Schaeffer and R. Greiner. Electronic Arts Journal 1(2), 2001.

  • Report on the Second International Conference on Computers and Games. With M. Müller. International Computer Games Association Journal, March 2001.

  • Are Bees Better than Fruitflies? M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, 2000. (pdf, ps.zip)

  • Learning from Perfection: A Data Mining Approach to Evaluation Function Learning in Awari. Computers and Games conference, Hamamatsu, 2000. (pdf, ps.zip)

  • Are Bees Better than Fruitflies? Experiments with a Hex Playing Program. Canadian AI conference, Montreal, 2000. (pdf, ps.zip)

  • Neural Hexworks. M.Sc. Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, 1993.