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'''Yoshiyuki Kotani''',<br/>
a Japanese mathematician, computer scientist and professor at Department of Computer Science, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_University_of_Agriculture_and_Technology Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology].
His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing natural language processing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision computer vision], [[Learning|machine learning]], and computer games with focus on [[Shogi]]. He is co-author of the Shogi program [[Mattari Yuuchan]], Bronze medal winner in Minishogi at the [[17th Computer Olympiad#Shogi|17th Computer Olympiad]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama Yokohama] 2013.
Yoshiyuki Kotani is further [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze maze] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle puzzle] designer <ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/geduldspiele/GalleryMazePuzzles Mazes - Puzzle]</ref> <ref>[https://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/math/facultystaff/aparker.html Adam E. Parker] ('''1999'''). ''Kotani's Ant Problem''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenberg_University Wittenberg University], [http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/mathematics/students/student_projects/aparker_kotani.pdf pdf]</ref>, and worked on the problem of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_tiling domino tilings] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino polyominoes] <ref>[http://www2.stetson.edu/%7Eefriedma/mathmagic/0500.html Problem of the Month (May 2000)] from [http://www2.stetson.edu/%7Eefriedma/mathmagic/ Math Magic] by [http://www2.stetson.edu/%7Eefriedma/index.html Erich Friedman]</ref> .
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf [ICGA Journal#RefDB|ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kotani:Yoshiyuki dblp: Yoshiyuki Kotani]</ref>
==1991 ...==
* [[Hiroyuki Iida]], [[Yoshiyuki Kotani]] ('''1991'''). ''Computer Shogi''. The Proceedings of Game Playing System Workshop, ICOT, Tokyo, Japan.
==2010 ...==
* [[Thitipong Kanjanapa]], [[Kanako Komiya]], [[Yoshiyuki Kotani]] ('''2012'''). ''Design and Implementation of Bonanza Method for the Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa''. [http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/index.html IPSJ SIG Technical Report], Vol. 2012-GI-27, No. 4, [http://arimaa.com/arimaa/papers/KanjanapaThitipong/IPSJ-GI12027004.pdf pdf] » [[Arimaa]], [[Automated Tuning]]
* [[Haruhiko Akiyama]], [[Kanako Komiya Kanako]], [[Yoshiyuki Kotani]] ('''2012'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950705111002516 Nested Monte-Carlo Search with simulation reduction]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-Based_Systems_(journal) Knowledge-Based Systems], Vol. 34<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_Five Morpion solitaire from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[http://www.morpionsolitaire.com/English/RecordsGrids5T.htm Morpion Solitaire - Record Grids (5T game)]</ref>
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