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School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers
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Date of this Version
2006
Document Type
Article
Abstract
·Motivate the students for the study of Constraint Processing (CP). Minesweeper is perfect to this end because it allows us to illustrate the use of CP algorithms in a familiar context and show how they operate.
·Understand and demystify humans’ fascination with puzzles.
·Discourage graduate students from losing too much time playing the game by making a program that plays the game for them.
Comments
Bayer, Snyder & Choueiry in Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006, Boston, Massachussets). Pages 1,933-1,934. Copyright 2006, AAAI. Used by permission.