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* [[Ulf Lorenz]], [[Valentin Rottmann]], [[Rainer Feldmann]], [[Peter Mysliwietz]] ('''1995'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3]]
 
* [[Ulf Lorenz]], [[Valentin Rottmann]], [[Rainer Feldmann]], [[Peter Mysliwietz]] ('''1995'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search.'' [[ICGA Journal#18_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3]]
 
* [[Ulf Lorenz]], [[Valentin Rottmann]] ('''1996'''). ''Parallel Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 8]]
 
* [[Ulf Lorenz]], [[Valentin Rottmann]] ('''1996'''). ''Parallel Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 8]]
* [[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''1999'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-2 Search''. Technical Report, [[Paderborn University]], [http://www2.cs.upb.de/cs/ag-monien/PUBLICATIONS/POSTSCRIPTS/Falgo.ps ps]
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* [[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''1999'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-2 Search''. Technical Report, [[Paderborn University]]
 
* [[Robin Upton]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.robinupton.com/research/phd/ Dynamic Stochastic Control - A New Approach to Game Tree Searching]''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warwick University of Warwick]
 
* [[Robin Upton]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.robinupton.com/research/phd/ Dynamic Stochastic Control - A New Approach to Game Tree Searching]''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warwick University of Warwick]
 
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[[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/hsmig/content/titleinfo/2460 Controlled Conspiracy Number Search]''. [[Paderborn University]], Dissertation, advisor [[Burkhard Monien]] (German)
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* [[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de/hsmig/content/titleinfo/2460 Controlled Conspiracy Number Search]''. [[Paderborn University]], Dissertation, advisor [[Burkhard Monien]] (German)
 
* [[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''2000'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-2 Search''. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS)
 
* [[Ulf Lorenz]] ('''2000'''). ''Controlled Conspiracy-2 Search''. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS)
 
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''[[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]]
 
* [[David McAllester]], [[Deniz Yuret]] ('''2002'''). ''[[Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Search]]''. [[ICGA Journal#25_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1]]

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Conspiracy Number Search, (CNS, cns)
a best-first search algorithm first described by David McAllester based on Conspiracy Numbers of the root. Trees are grown in memory - in an often deep and narrow way - that maximizes the conspiracy required to change the root value. The phases of the best-first search procedure are Selection of a leaf node, Expansion and Evaluation of that leaf, and to Back-up the result of that evaluation back to the root. Since the number of conspiracy numbers per node depends on the number of possible evaluation values, fine grained evaluation, necessary for good positional play, yields to inefficient and unstable CNS. Further, due to the lack of bounds, a final alpha-beta quiescence search in early CNS implementations was quite expensive.

Controlled Conspiracy Number Search

Ulf Lorenz' and Valentin Rottmann's et al. improvement dubbed Controlled Conspiracy Number Search (CCNS) [1] addresses the drawbacks of CNS by introducing general CN Targets and Extended Conspiracy Numbers. CN targets (security demands) are splitted over the successors in order to inform each node about the goal of its examination. Extended Conspiracy Numbers of the root are defined as the least number of leaf nodes that must change their value in order to change the decision at the root to another move.

Parallel Controlled Conspiracy Number Search

The parallelization procedure aims at a dynamic distribution of the game tree, initiating a worker/employer relationship along with a sophisticated splitting heuristic of CN targets. The stack, used to keep the nodes of the best-first search, could be manipulated from outside in order to share work and integrate results from other processors [2].

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References

  1. Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann, Rainer Feldmann, Peter Mysliwietz (1995). Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search. ICCA Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3
  2. Ulf Lorenz, Valentin Rottmann (1996). Parallel Controlled Conspiracy-Number Search. Advances in Computer Chess 8

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