T. A(Tony) Marsland

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1965-1990

Some materials are not available as online copies.

• Miscellaneous Boeing and Bell Laboratories Internal Reports, 1963-1970.
• Control Systems Study through Dynamic and Non-linear Programming M.S.E.(E). Thesis, Univ. of Washington, Aug. 1965, 120pp.
• Adaptive Computer Programs: An Aid in Problem Analysis Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, Aug. 1967, 130pp.
• An Adaptive Computing System for the Synthesis of Threshold Logic Networks. Air Force Report for Contract AFOSR-468-65. Available at the Defence Documentation Center Report #AD0663446.
• The Evolution of Threshold Logic Networks which Recognize Binary Patterns, T.A. Marsland and D.L. Johnson, Proceedings of the 1968 IEEE Systems Sci. and Cybern. Conf., 55-60.
• Mechanisms for Comparing Chess Programs, T.A. Marsland and P.G. Rushton, Proc. ACM73, Atlanta, (1973), 202-205.
• Current Chess Programs: A Summary of their Potential and Limitations, P. Rushton and T.A. Marsland, INFOR Journal of the Canadian Information Processing Society, Vol. 11, #1 (Feb. 1973), 13-20.
• A Study of Techniques for Game-playing Programs, T.A. Marsland and P.G. Rushton, Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, #2 (1973), 26-30. See also Advances in Cybernetics, J. Rose (editor) Gordon & Breach 1974, 363-372.
• 1976 Canadian Computer Chess Workshop, T.A. Marsland, Firbush News (1976), Univ. of Edinburgh, 37-40.
• "An insight into PDP-11 emulation", J.C. Demco and T.A. Marsland, Procs. 9th Annual Workshop on Microprogramming, New Orleans, Sept. 1976, 20-26
• A Communication Protocol for Distributed Microprocessors, M.S. Sloman, B.K. Penney and T.A. Marsland, Procs. IEE Conf. on Distributed Computer Control Systems, Univ. of Ashton, Birmingham, 1977, 64-67.
• A Case Study of Computer Emulation, T.A. Marsland and J. Demco, INFOR Vol. 16, #2 (June 1978), 112-131.
• Abstract of "Introducing graphics capability to several high-level languages", Ng, Nam and T.A. Marsland, Software Practice and Experience, Vol 8, #5, 1978, 629-639.
• Chapter 19: A Bibliography of Computer Chess, T.A. Marsland. In Machine Intelligence 9, Hayes, Michie and Mikulich (editors) pp 385-403, Wiley, June 1979.
• A Heterogeneous Dual Processor, T.A. Marsland and S.F. Sutphen, Software-Practice and Experience Vol. 10, (Jan. 1980), 21-28.
• Detection of Deadlocks in Distributed Database Systems, T.A. Marsland and S.S. Isloor, INFOR 18(1), February 1980, 1-21.
• The Deadlock Problem: An Overview, S.S. Isloor and T.A. Marsland, IEEE Computer 13(9), September 1980, 58-78.
• A Brighter Future for Soviet Computer Chess?, Tony Marsland and Monty Newborn, ICCA Journal, Vol. 4, #1, 1981.
• A Survey of Enhancements to the Alpha-Beta Algorithm, Tony Marsland and Murray Campbell. Proceedings of the ACM'81, Los Angeles (Nov. 1981), pp. 109-114.
• Parallel Search of Strongly Ordered Game Trees, T.A. Marsland and M.S. Campbell, ACM Computing Surveys 14(4), December 1982, 533-551.
• Relative Efficiency of Alpha-Beta Implementations, T.A. Marsland. In Proceedings 8th Intl. Joint Conf. on Art. Intell., Karlsruhe, Germany, Morgan Kaufmann (Aug. 1983), 763-766.
• A Comparison of Minimax Tree Search Algorithms, M. Campbell and T.A. Marsland, Artificial Intelligence, Vol 20, 1983, 347-367.
• A Quantitative Study of Refinements to the Alpha-Beta Algorithm, T.A. Marsland, Proceedings McGill Cognitive Science Workshop, Aug. 1982.
• A Unix based Virtual Tree Machine, M. Olafsson and T.A. Marsland, Procs. CIPS Congress 85, Montreal, (June 1985), 176-181.
• Parallel Game Tree Search, T.A. Marsland and F. Popowich, IEEE Trans of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 7(4), July 1985, 442-452.
• The Utility of Expert Knowledge, J. Schaeffer and T.A. Marsland, 9th IJCAI Conf. Procs., Los Angeles, (Aug. 1985), 585-587.
• Information Acquisition in Minimal Window Search, A. Reinefeld, J. Schaeffer and T.A. Marsland, Procs. 9th IJCAI Conf., Los Angeles, (Aug. 1985), 1040-1043.
• Evaluation Function Factors, T.A. Marsland, ICCA Journal, Vol 8, No. 2, June 1985, 47-57.
• Multiprocessor Tree-Search Experiments, T.A. Marsland, M. Olafsson and J. Schaeffer. In Advances in Computer Chess 4, D. Beal (editor), Pergamon, 1985, 37-51.
• Management of Block-Structured Programs, T.A. Marsland, Software Practice and Experience, July 1985, 715-723.
• A Review of Game-Tree Pruning, T.A. Marsland, Int. Comp. Chess Assoc. Journal, Vol 9, No. 1, March 1986, 3-19.
• Chess by Computer, T.A. Marsland, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1986.
• Phased State Space Search, T.A. Marsland and N. Srimani, ACM/IEEE Fall Joint Computer Conf. Procs., Nov. 1986, 514-518.
• Computer Chess Methods, T.A. Marsland, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, First Edition, S. Shapiro (editor), J. Wiley & Sons, (May 1987), 159-171.
• Quantitative Analysis of Minimal Window Search, Alexander Reinefeld and T.A. Marsland, Proceedings 10th Intl. Joint Conf. on Art. Intell., Milan, Italy, Morgan Kaufmann (Aug. 1987), 951-954.
• Solving Equations of Motion on a Virtual Tree Machine, W.W. Armstrong, T.A. Marsland, M. Olafsson and J. Schaeffer, SIAM J of Sci. & Stat. Comput., Vol 8, #1, 1987, s59-s72.
• Workshop Report: Theory and Practice in Computer Chess, T.A. Marsland, ICCA Journal 10(4), 205-210 (1987).
• Low Overhead Alternatives to SSS*, T.A. Marsland, A. Reinefeld and J. Schaeffer, Artificial Intelligence, Vol 31, Feb. 1987, 185-199.
• Accuracy and Savings in Depth-Limited Capture Search, Prakash Bettadapur and T.A. Marsland, Int. J. Man-Machine Studies, Vol 29, No. 5, 1988, 497-502.
• Workshop report on "New Technologies for Chess", T.A. Marsland, ICCA Journal 12(1), 1989, p. 50.
• New Directions in Game-Tree Search, Tony Marsland (editor), Workshop Proceedings WCCC, Edmonton, May 1989, 139 pages.
• Probability-based Game-tree Pruning, Liwu Li and T.A. Marsland, Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 11, Feb. 1990, 27-43.
• The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited, T.A. Marsland, ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 1990, 15-19. See also, Computers, Chess and Cognition, 217-223.
• "Control of Bottlenecks in a Network Database Machine", T.A. Marsland & L. Meng. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 468, edited by Akl, Fiala and Koczkodaj, Springer-Verlag, Dec. 1990, 483-492.
• Computers, Chess, and Cognition, edited by T.A. Marsland and J. Schaeffer, Springer-Verlag, December 1990, 323 pages.
• A Short History of Computer Chess, T.A. Marsland: In Computers, Chess, and Cognition, 1990, 3-7.

• Post 1990 publications
• Miscellaneous Technical Reports
• Less formal works, including some Workshop documents and ICCA Correspondence.