From: Hitoshi Matsubara <matsubar <at> ETL <dot> GO <dot> JP>
Date: 28 aug 1994
Subject: game programming workshop

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

First Game Programming Workshop in Japan

Hitoshi Matsubara
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{\LARGE First Game Programming Workshop in Japan:\\
 Call for Participations:}

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The purpose of this workshop is to promote computer
game-playing researches, especially those on computer Shogi
(Japanese Chess) and
computer Go.

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\item Title: First Game Programming Workshop in Japan

\item Sponsorship:  (Japanese) Computer Shogi Association

\item Co-sponsorship: Japanese Computer Go Association

\item Date: October 21-23, 1994

\item Place $@!' (J Hakone Seminar House, 845 Sengoku-bara,
Hakone, Ashigara-shimo-gun, Kanagawa, JAPAN\\ tel:+81-460-4-9211\\
              (Accomodation: Japanese-style room)

\item Official languages: Japanese/English\ (no interpretation)

\item Expected number of participants: 50 people

\item Registration fee $@!' (J 30,000 yen \ \ (Student 15,000
yen)\\
including proceedings, 2 nights stays, suppers of 21 and 22,
breakfasts of 22 and 23, lunch of 22.

\item Deadline of Application:  September 24th,
1994

\item Applicaiton and Contact:\\
Hitoshi Matsubara\\
Electrotechnical Laboratory\\
Machine Inference Section\\
1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 JAPAN\\
tel:+81-298-58-5917 \ \ fax:+81-298-58-5918\\
e-mail: matsubar <at> etl <dot> go <dot> jp\\

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{\LARGE Tentative program}

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October 21th (Friday), 1994

13:30- 14:15
chair $@!' (J Yoshiyuki Kotani

Computer Shogi tutorial lecture

Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda Univ.): Past and future of computer Shogi

14:30-15:30
chair: Yoshiyuki Kotani

Computer Shogi I

Hitoshi Matsubara (ETL), Barney Pell $@!' (J Applying Metagamer to Shogi

Kenji Koyama (NTT), Yasuhito Kawano:
  Analysis of impressions on masterpieces of tsume-syogi,

16:00-17:00
chair: Hiroyuki Iida

Computer Shogi II

Kohei Noshita, Yasuichi Nakayama, Sin'ichi Matsumoto and
Tadafumi Akazawa:
  Solving Tsume-shogi in Parallel on Distributed Computers

Natsuhiko Nagumo (Kanagawa Univ.):
    Peculiarities of Computer Shogi on Game Records

October 22th (Saturday)

9:00-9:45
chair: Morihiko Tajima

Computer Go tutorial lecture
Noriaki Sanechika (ETL): History of Computer Go (tentative)

10:00-11:00
chair: Morihiko Tajima

Compter Go I

Takuya Kojima (Tokyo Univ.), Saburo Nagano $@!' (J
A Case Study of Aquisition and Refinement of Deductive Rules
based on EBL in an Adversary Game : How to Capture Stones in Go

Yasuki Saito(NTT) and Atsushi Yoshikawa:
Cognitive studies for the game of Go

11:15-12:15
chair: Kohei Noshita

Computer Go II

  Makoto Yoshida,Kei Maruyama,Masao Maruyama,
  Eiichi Hayakawa,Mitarou Namiki,Nobumasa Takahashi:
  Knowledge of  $@!H (Jpatterns $@!I (J and a method for collecting them
    in the game of Go

  Masao Maruyama,Kei Maruyama,Makoto Yoshida,
  Eiichi Hayakawa,Mitarou Namiki,Nobumasa Takahashi:
  A study on a Go playing program
    and LANKA,a language for describing knowledge in the game of Go

13:15-14:15
chair:Yasuki Saito

Computer Go III

Richard Lorentz(California State Univ.,USA): Tactics in computer Go

Thomas Wolf (Queen Mary & Westfield Colleage, U.K.):
40,000 Tsumego problems - Their
generation, solution and further use

14:30-15:30
chair: Yasuki Saito

Compter Go IV

Shinichi Sei (Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Ltd.),
Toshiaki Kawashima: The experiment of Creating Move from
``Local Pattern'' Knowledge in Go programs

Noriaki Sanechika (ETL): Life and Death routine in a Computer GO

16:00-17:00
chair:Takenobu Takizawa

miscellaneous

Morihiko Tajima (ETL) and Noriaki Sanechika:
Application of EBG in Game Learning

Shuichi Yano (Keio Univ.),Masaru Tomita,Takashi Kido:
        Tournament of prisoner's dilemma with noises


October 23th (Sunday)

9:00-10:30
chair: Takumi Ito

Computer Shogi III

Hiroshi Yamashita (Tohoku Univ.):
Algorithms of move generation in a Shogi program

Hiroshi TOKUDA (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology),
Hiroyuki Iida, Yoshiyuki Kotani:
Experiments With The Game Tree Search Including An Opponent Model

Hiroyuki Iida (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology),
Yoshiyuki Kotani, Jos Uiterwijk $@!' (J Tutoring Strategy in Game Playing

11:00-12:00
chair: Kenji Koyama

Computer Shogi IV

Satoshi KUBOTA (Fujitsu), Yoshiyuki Kotani, Hiroyuki Iida:
Learning of Candidate Moves for Searching from Shogi Game Scores

Masaki HOSOE(Konami), Yoshiyuki Kotani:
Evaluation of Search Efficiency in Parallel Game Tree Search Using
Proccessor Tree

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