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[[FILE:AustinParker2006.jpg|border|right|thumb|Austin Parker <ref>Austin Parker with Siver Medal at the [[11th Computer Olympiad#KriegSpiel|11th Computer Olympiad, KriegSpiel]], Image clipped from [http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad2006/fotos/ ICGA Olympiad 2006 Photos]</ref> ]]
'''Austin Parker''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Ph.D. in 2008 from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park University of Maryland, College Park] under [[Dana S. Nau]] and [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] <ref>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/students.html Dana Nau's Students]</ref>.
His research interests include computational [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making decision making] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning knowledge representation], in particularly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%E2%80%93temporal_reasoning probabilistic spatial temporal knowledge].
Along with Dana S. Nau et al., he further worked and published on [[Search Pathology|search pathology]] and how to avoid it <ref>[[Brandon Wilson]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Error Minimizing Minimax: Avoiding Search Pathology in Game Trees''. [http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ebswilson/papers/pgamePathology.pdf pdf]</ref>.
As game programmer, he is author of the [[KriegSpiel]] bot [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=243 Kbott], which played the [[11th Computer Olympiad#KriegSpiel|11th Computer Olympiad, KriegSpiel]] 2006 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin Turin].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Parker:Austin dblp: Austin Parker]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2005'''). ''Game-Tree Search with Combinatorially Large Belief States''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2005|IJCAI 2005]], [http://www.ijcai.org/papers/0878.pdf pdf]
* [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2006'''). ''Overconfidence or Paranoia? Search in Imperfect-Information Games''. [[Conferences#AAAI-2006|AAAI 2006]], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2006/AAAI06-164.pdf pdf] » [[KriegSpiel]]
* [[Austin Parker]] ('''2008'''). ''Spatial Probabilistic Temporal Databases''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park University of Maryland, College Park], advisors [[Dana S. Nau]] and [[V.S. Subrahmanian]]
* [[Brandon Wilson]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Error Minimizing Minimax: Avoiding Search Pathology in Game Trees''. [http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ebswilson/papers/pgamePathology.pdf pdf]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Carr:Ryan Ryan Carr], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Raboin:Eric Eric Raboin], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Within epsilon of optimal play in the cultaptation social learning game''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/atal/aamas2009-2.html AAMAS 2009], [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/papers/carr2009within.pdf pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Dana S. Nau]], [[Mitja Luštrek]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Ivan Bratko]], [[Matjaž Gams]] ('''2010'''). ''When is it better not to look ahead?''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 174, No. 16–17, [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/papers/nau2010when.pdf pdf], [https://dis.ijs.si/mitjal/documents/Nau-When_is_it_better_not_to_look_ahead-AIJ-10.pdf pdf preprint]
* [[Brandon Wilson]], [[Inon Zuckerman]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2012'''). ''Improving Local Decisions in Adversarial Search''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ecai/ecai2012.html ECAI 2012], [http://www.ariel.ac.il/sites/inon/papers/ECAI12Wilson.pdf pdf]
* [[Austin Parker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Simari:Gerardo_I= Gerardo I. Simari], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5_L3jpMAAAAJ&hl=en Amy Sliva], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493902736?gclid=CjwKCAiAkrTjBRAoEiwAXpf9CQms_SJwrrltLVwU3wTGRdNlP9OvZ5l9FX5Jtw29tzCjjEcSeAy8JhoCJiQQAvD_BwE Data-driven Generation of Policies]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/series/sbcs/index.html Springer Briefs in Computer Science], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinparker Austin Parker | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.cs.umd.edu/community/alumnus/austin-parker Austin Parker | UMD Department of Computer Science]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=228 Austin Parker's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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[[FILE:AustinParker2006.jpg|border|right|thumb|Austin Parker <ref>Austin Parker with Siver Medal at the [[11th Computer Olympiad#KriegSpiel|11th Computer Olympiad, KriegSpiel]], Image clipped from [http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad2006/fotos/ ICGA Olympiad 2006 Photos]</ref> ]]
'''Austin Parker''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, Ph.D. in 2008 from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park University of Maryland, College Park] under [[Dana S. Nau]] and [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] <ref>[http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/students.html Dana Nau's Students]</ref>.
His research interests include computational [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making decision making] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning knowledge representation], in particularly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%E2%80%93temporal_reasoning probabilistic spatial temporal knowledge].
Along with Dana S. Nau et al., he further worked and published on [[Search Pathology|search pathology]] and how to avoid it <ref>[[Brandon Wilson]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Error Minimizing Minimax: Avoiding Search Pathology in Game Trees''. [http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ebswilson/papers/pgamePathology.pdf pdf]</ref>.
As game programmer, he is author of the [[KriegSpiel]] bot [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=243 Kbott], which played the [[11th Computer Olympiad#KriegSpiel|11th Computer Olympiad, KriegSpiel]] 2006 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin Turin].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Parker:Austin dblp: Austin Parker]</ref>
==2005 ...==
* [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2005'''). ''Game-Tree Search with Combinatorially Large Belief States''. [[Conferences#IJCAI2005|IJCAI 2005]], [http://www.ijcai.org/papers/0878.pdf pdf]
* [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2006'''). ''Overconfidence or Paranoia? Search in Imperfect-Information Games''. [[Conferences#AAAI-2006|AAAI 2006]], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2006/AAAI06-164.pdf pdf] » [[KriegSpiel]]
* [[Austin Parker]] ('''2008'''). ''Spatial Probabilistic Temporal Databases''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park University of Maryland, College Park], advisors [[Dana S. Nau]] and [[V.S. Subrahmanian]]
* [[Brandon Wilson]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Error Minimizing Minimax: Avoiding Search Pathology in Game Trees''. [http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ebswilson/papers/pgamePathology.pdf pdf]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Carr:Ryan Ryan Carr], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/r/Raboin:Eric Eric Raboin], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2009'''). ''Within epsilon of optimal play in the cultaptation social learning game''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/atal/aamas2009-2.html AAMAS 2009], [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/papers/carr2009within.pdf pdf]
==2010 ...==
* [[Dana S. Nau]], [[Mitja Luštrek]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Ivan Bratko]], [[Matjaž Gams]] ('''2010'''). ''When is it better not to look ahead?''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 174, No. 16–17, [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/papers/nau2010when.pdf pdf], [https://dis.ijs.si/mitjal/documents/Nau-When_is_it_better_not_to_look_ahead-AIJ-10.pdf pdf preprint]
* [[Brandon Wilson]], [[Inon Zuckerman]], [[Austin Parker]], [[Dana S. Nau]] ('''2012'''). ''Improving Local Decisions in Adversarial Search''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ecai/ecai2012.html ECAI 2012], [http://www.ariel.ac.il/sites/inon/papers/ECAI12Wilson.pdf pdf]
* [[Austin Parker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Simari:Gerardo_I= Gerardo I. Simari], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5_L3jpMAAAAJ&hl=en Amy Sliva], [[V.S. Subrahmanian]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493902736?gclid=CjwKCAiAkrTjBRAoEiwAXpf9CQms_SJwrrltLVwU3wTGRdNlP9OvZ5l9FX5Jtw29tzCjjEcSeAy8JhoCJiQQAvD_BwE Data-driven Generation of Policies]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/series/sbcs/index.html Springer Briefs in Computer Science], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinparker Austin Parker | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.cs.umd.edu/community/alumnus/austin-parker Austin Parker | UMD Department of Computer Science]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=228 Austin Parker's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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