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Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence

by Nils J. Nilsson
April 1998
Beginner
513 pages
14h 32m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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12

Adversarial Search

12.1 Two-Agent Games

One of the challenges mentioned in Chapter 10 involved planning and acting in environments populated by other active agents. Lacking knowledge of how other agents might act, we can do little more than use a sense/plan/act architecture that does not plan too far into the unpredictable future. However, when knowledge permits, an agent can construct plans that explicitly consider the effects of the actions of other agents. Let’s consider the special case of two agents. An idealized setting in which they can take each other’s actions into account is one in which the actions of the agents are interleaved. First one agent acts, then the other, and so on.

For example, consider the grid-space world of Figure 12.1 ...

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