dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (09/25/83)
Michael Mauldin, who does not have access to Usenet, has asked me to
post this message. It originally went onto the AIList on the Arpanet.
I have obtained the source to the game from him and it's a pretty good
player. (It hasn't yet won at 5.2 but has come close.)
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People of NetLand, the long awaited day of liberation has arrived!
Throw off the shackles of ignorance and see what secrets of technology
have been laid bare through the agency of a free university press,
unbridled by the harsh realities of economic competition!
The Rog-O-Paper is here!
For a copy of CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-83-144, entitled "Rog-O-Matic:
A Belligerent Expert System", please send your physical address to
Mauldin@CMU-CS-A
and include the phrase "paper request" in the subject line.
The source is still available by either FTP or can be mailed in several
pieces. It is about a third of a megabyte of characters, and is mailed
in pieces either 70K or 40K characters long.
Michael Mauldin (Fuzzy)
Computer Science Department
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
CMU-CS-83-144 Abstract
Rog-O-Matic is an unusual combination of algorithmic and
production systems programming techniques which cooperate
to explore a hostile environment. This environment is the
computer game Rogue, which offers several advantages for
studying exploration tasks. This paper presents the
major features of the Rog-O-Matic system, the types of
knowledge sources and rules used to control the
exploration, and compares the performance of the system
with human Rogue players.
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For those on Usenet without access to Arpanet, one route is
...ucbvax!Mauldin@CMU-CS-A
or use your favourite Arpanet link.
Michael will mail out copies of the physical tech report to anyone
who asks. He is currently working on updating the latest version to
take some bug fixes into account. When the next version is ready I
will see that it makes it to net.sources.
Dave Sherman
(Magnifibeast)
Toronto
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