Stephen J.J. Smith

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Stephen Joseph J. Smith, an American computer scientist and lead programmer at Great Game Products, the makers of 'Bridge Baron, the 1997 world champion of computer bridge, where he along with Dana S. Nau and Thomas A. Throop developed the AI-planning techniques. He holds a Ph.D. in 1997 from University of Maryland, College Park on search and planning applied to Bridge, and co-authored several papers on that topic as well on forward pruning.

=Selected Publications=

1990 ...

 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop (1992). A hierarchical approach to strategic planning with non-cooperating agents under conditions of uncertainty. Proceedings of the First International Conference on AI Planning Systems
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau (1993). Toward an analysis of forward pruning. Technical Report, University of Maryland, College Park
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau (1993). Strategic planning for imperfect-information games. Technical Report, University of Maryland, College Park
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau (1994). An Analysis of Forward Pruning. AAAI 1994, pdf

1995 ...

 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop (1996). A Planning Approach to Declarer Play in Contract Bridge. Computational Intelligence, Vol. 12
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop (1996). Total-Order Multi-Agent Task-Network Planning for Contract Bridge. AAAI 1996
 * Stephen J.J. Smith (1997). Task-Network Planning using Total-Order Forward Search, and Applications to Bridge and to Microwave Module Manufacture. Ph.D. thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, advisor Dana S. Nau
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop (1998). Success in Spades: Using AI Planning Techniques to Win the World Championship of Computer Bridge. AAAI 1998
 * Stephen J.J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop (1998). Computer Bridge: A Big Win for AI Planning. AI Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 2, pdf

=External Links=
 * Great Game Products
 * Great Game Products - About Us


 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Stephen Smith

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