Combining Knowledge and Search to Solve Single-suit Bridge
Ian Frank, David Basin, Alan Bundy
To be presented at AAAI2000,
the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Please note that the AAAI copyright agreement allows authors (but only
authors) to post their papers on a Web or ftp site.
Abstract:
In problem solving, it is often important not only to find a
solution but also to be able to explain it.
We use the game of Bridge to illustrate how tactics, which formalise
domain-specific expertise, can be used for both these tasks.
Our Bridge tactics constrain search to the point where optimal
strategies can quickly be identified, and also provide the key to
explaining these strategies in human-understandable terms.
We demonstrate this using a canonical set of single-suit Bridge
problems from a definitive expert text.
FINESSE `solves' these problems in the technical sense that, in
addition to always finding optimal solutions (and revealing a 3%
error rate in the expert answers), it also explains each solution in
simple, clear English text.
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