Re: AI for Bidding in Bridge

"Randolph M. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> btlog wrote:
> I'm not up on a lot of research in this area, but the main work I'm 
> aware of is Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer:
>     http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/gibresearch.html
> 
> Are you really talking about *learning* a bidding system, though?  What 
> kind of learning do you mean?  Certainly human bridge players learn 
> bidding systems by instruction (and then perhaps tuning their memories 
> of the instructions), but I'd think it would be rare for a bridge player 
> to try to induce bidding rules just by observing bidding behavior.
> 
> I'm pretty sure Bridge Baron just has a set of large flow-charts 
> (basically a rule-based system) for bidding.  GIB seems to have 
> something similar but also apparently adds a lookahead search of some 
> sort.  Sorry but that's the extent of my knowledge about it.

Thanks for your reply

I am aware of Ginsbergs GIB program and some of the focus of the
research that has been involved in the application.

At the moment I am still keen on the system inducing the bidding rules
with minor tweaking by instruction. I am hoping that this method will
allow the system to be more flexible in its bidding responses.

I would like to implement a fusion of the range of bidding methods
that have been implemented at this stage. I will put a disclaimer that
I am only starting the planning for my project proposal and I may find
some interesting research that may point me in another direction.

It is both disappointing and encouraging that there is not a lot of
reasearch (that I can find published) that is in this area.

My long term goal is to provide a more flexible bidding engine to
commercial applications. I would like to couple this with a top of the
line play engine.

Here is hoping

Regards

Craig