Makoto Sakuta

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Makoto Sakuta, a Japanese computer scientist at Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Higashi-ku, before affiliated with the Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, where he received his Ph.D. on Deterministic Solving of Problems with Uncertainty. His research interests include Endgame Search, Kriegspiel-Like Problems, computer shogi, studies on Tsuitate-Tsume-Shogi (Mating Problems of Screen Shogi), and the killer-tree heuristic.

=Selected Publications=

1999

 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (1999). Solving Problems with Uncertainty: A case study using Tsuitate-Tsume-Shogi. Proceedings of Game Programming Workshop in Japan '99, pp. 145-152, Hakone, Japan, pdf

2000 ...

 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida, Jin Yoshimura (2000). A Deterministic Approach for Solving Kriegspiel-like Problems. 5th Computer Olympiad Workshop
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (2000). Solving Kriegspiel-Like Problems: Examining Efficient Search Methods. CG 2000
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (2000). Solving Kriegspiel-like Problems: Exploiting a Transposition Table. ICGA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, pdf
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida, Jin Yoshimura (2000). Solving Problems under Uncertainty Paradigm. Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2000), L'Aquila, Italy. (in CD-ROM).
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (2001). The Performance of PN*, PDS, and PN Search on 6x6 Othello and Tsume-Shogi. Advances in Computer Games 9
 * Makoto Sakuta (2001). Deterministic Solving of Problems with Uncertainty. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Schience and Engeneering, Shizuoka University
 * Makoto Sakuta, Hiroyuki Iida (2001). AND/OR-tree Search Algorithms in Shogi Mating Search. ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4
 * Makoto Sakuta, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Endgame-search techniques developed in shogi: application to Lines of Action. In Caulfield, H. et al., editor, Proceedings of JCIS 2002, pages 458-460.
 * Makoto Sakuta, Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Jos Uiterwijk, Hiroyuki Iida (2002). Application of the killer-tree heuristic and the lambda-search method to lines of action.
 * Hiroyuki Iida, Makoto Sakuta, Jeff Rollason (2002). Computer Shogi. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 134
 * Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jun Nagashima, Makoto Sakuta, Jos Uiterwijk, Hiroyuki Iida (2003). Automatic realization-probability search. Internal report, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan.

=External Links=
 * Fukuoka Institute of Technology - Makoto Sakuta

=References=

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