Software

Current and Recent Projects

• 2023 - ongoing: Expected work search (EWS), Python reference code, by Owen Randall. Also see our paper in IJCAI 2024

Older Software

• 2011-2019: Arvand 2011, a second generation random walk planner, by Hootan Nakhost.
• 2008-2018: Fuego is an open-source framework for Monte Carlo tree search in Go and other games. It was a main focus and tool for our research on games. Fuego development has stopped. It is still available on sourceforge.
• 2002 - 2017: GoGui is a graphical user interface for Go programmers, originally developed by Markus Enzenberger while at the University of Alberta. It is recently maintained by Remi Coulom. Newer versions are on github.
• 2009 - 2016: Aras, a postprocessor to improve the plan quality, by Hootan Nakhost.
• 2011 - 2015: Arrow2, MCTS-based Amazons program. It has played successfully against strong human players on the LittleGolem site.
• 2012-2013: Colin Hunt's Fuegito is a lightweight combinatorial game development framework meant mainly for educational use.
• 1989-2009: My previous Go program Explorer. The original version was Mac-only. Later, Explorer was refactored to be used under the new Fuego framework.
• My previous Amazons program Arrow. Mac-only.
• I was involved in the development of Anders Kierulf's Smart Game Board.