The Digital Ludeme Project: Modelling the Evolution of Traditional Games

Project Information

LUDEME

Grant agreement ID: 771292

DOI

10.3030/771292

Project closed

EC signature date 14 March 2018

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 997 244,00

EU contribution

€ 1 997 244,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Conference proceedings (23)

General Board Geometry

Author(s): Cameron Browne,Éric Piette,Matthew Stephenson,Dennis J.N.J. Soemers
Published in: Advances in Computer Games (ACG 2021), 2022, Page(s) 235-246, ISBN 978-3-031-11487-8
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11488-5_21

Combining MCTS with Proof-Number Search

Author(s): E. Doe; M. Winands; D. Soemers; C. Browne
Published in: IEEE Conference on Games (CoG 2022), 2022, Page(s) 206-212
Publisher: IEEE Press

Measuring Board Game Distance bibtexM. Stephenson, D. J.N.J. Soemers, É. Piette, and C. Browne (2023)In Computers and Games 2022 (CG 2022). Accepted.

Author(s): M. Stephenson; D. J. N. J. Soemers; É. Piette; C. Browne
Published in: Computers and Games 2022 (CG 2022), 2022
Publisher: Elsevier NV

Heuristic Sampling for Fast Plausible Playouts

Author(s): Cameron Browne; Fabio Barbero
Published in: 2021 IEEE Conference on Games, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cog52621.2021.9619147

Ludii - The Ludemic General Game System

Author(s): Eric Piette, Dennis J.N.J.Soemers, Matthew Stephenson, Chiara F. Sironi, Mark H. M. Winands and Cameron Browne
Published in: Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: IOS Press

Ludii – The Ludemic General Game System

Author(s): Éric Piette, Dennis J.N.J. Soemers, Matthew Stephenson, Chiara F. Sironi, Mark H.M. Winands, Cameron Browne
Published in: 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Issue 2020, 2020, Page(s) 411-418
Publisher: IOS Press

Manipulating the Distributions of Experience used for Self-Play Learning in Expert Iteration

Author(s): Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Piette, Éric; Stephenson, Matthew; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: IEEE Press

Automatic Generation of Board Game Manuals

Author(s): Matthew Stephenson,Éric Piette,Dennis J.N.J. Soemers,Cameron Browne
Published in: Advances in Computer Games (ACG 2021), 2022, ISBN 978-3-031-11487-8
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11488-5_19

Ludii as a Competition Platform

Author(s): Matthew Stephenson, Eric Piette, Dennis J.N.J. Soemers, Cameron Browne
Published in: 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-1884-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cig.2019.8848084

General Board Game Concepts

Author(s): Eric Piette; Matthew Stephenson; Dennis J.N.J. Soemers; Cameron Browne
Published in: 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-4608-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cog52621.2021.9618990

Optimised Playout Implementations for the Ludii General Game System

Author(s): Dennis J.N.J. Soemers,Éric Piette,Matthew Stephenson,Cameron Browne
Published in: Advances in Computer Games (ACG 2021), 2022, ISBN 978-3-031-11487-8
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11488-5_20

Drawing Knots with Tutte Embedding

Author(s): Cameron Browne
Published in: Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture, 2023
Publisher: Bridges Organisation

An Overview of the Ludii General Game System

Author(s): Stephenson, Matthew; Piette, Éric; Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

Ludii and XCSP: Playing and Solving Logic Puzzles

Author(s): Piette, Cédric; Piette, Éric; Stephenson, Matthew; Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

Learning Policies from Self-Play with Policy Gradients and MCTS Value Estimates

Author(s): Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Piette, Éric; Stephenson, Matthew; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

Biasing MCTS with Features for General Games

Author(s): Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Piette, Éric; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

A Functional Taxonomy of Logic Puzzles

Author(s): Hufkens, L. V.; Browne, C.
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

An Empirical Evaluation of Two General Game Systems: Ludii and RBG

Author(s): Piette, Éric; Stephenson, Matthew; Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Browne, Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE Press

Strategic Features for General Games

Author(s): Browne, Cameron; Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Piette, Eric
Published in: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of AI, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: AAAI Press

Modern Techniques for Ancient Games

Author(s): Browne; Cameron
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, Issue 2018, 2018
Publisher: IEEE Press

Nice Knots

Author(s): Cameron Browne
Published in: Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture, 2022, Page(s) 309-312
Publisher: Bridges Organisation

A Practical Introduction to the Ludii General Game System

Author(s): Cameron Browne, Matthew Stephenson, E ́ric Piette and Dennis J.N.J. Soemers
Published in: Advances in Computer Games (ACG 2019), Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: Springer

General Game Heuristic Prediction Based on Ludeme Descriptions

Author(s): Matthew Stephenson; Dennis J. N. J. Soemers; Eric Piette; Cameron Browne
Published in: 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-4608-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cog52621.2021.9619052

Other (11)

Digital Ludeme Project Database Guide

Author(s): M. Stephenson, W. Crist and C. Browne
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: Maastricht University

Ludii Programming Guide

Author(s): C. Browne and E. Piette
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: Maastricht University

Spatial State-Action Features for General Games

Author(s): Dennis J.N.J. Soemers,Éric Piette,Matthew Stephenson,Cameron Browne
Published in: arXiv preprint, 2022
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.06401

Transfer of Fully Convolutional Policy-Value Networks Between Games and Game Variants

Author(s): Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Mella, Vegard; Piette, Eric; Stephenson, Matthew; Browne, Cameron; Teytaud, Olivier
Published in: arXiv preprint, 2021
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.12375

Ludii User Guide

Author(s): D. J. N. J. Soemers, E. Piette, M. Stephenson and C. Browne
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: Maastricht University

Ludii Game Logic Guide

Author(s): D. J. N. J. Soemers, E. Piette, M. Stephenson and C. Browne
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: Maastricht University

Ludii Language Reference

Author(s): C. Browne, D. J. N. J. Soemers, E. Piette, M. Stephenson and W. Crist
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: Maastricht University

Foundations of Digital Arch{\ae}oludology

Author(s): Browne, Cameron; Soemers, Dennis J. N. J.; Piette, Éric; Stephenson, Matthew; Conrad, Michael; Crist, Walter; Depaulis, Thierry; Duggan, Eddie; Horn, Fred; Kelk, Steven; Lucas, Simon M.; Neto, João Pedro; Parlett, David; Saffidine, Abdallah; Schädler, Ulrich; Silva, Jorge Nuno; de Voogt, Alex; Winands, Mark H. M.
Published in: Technical Report, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: ArXiv

The Ludii Game Description Language is Universal

Author(s): Dennis J.N.J. Soemers,Éric Piette,Matthew Stephenson,Cameron Browne
Published in: arXiv preprint, 2022
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.00451

Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project

Author(s): C. Browne; M. Stephenson; W. Crist
Published in: Open Science Europe, 2023
Publisher: Open Science Europe

The Ludii System, Database and Portal: Functional Requirements

Author(s): C. Browne and E. Piette
Published in: Technical report, Issue 2019, 2019
Publisher: Maastricht University

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Debunking the Diffusion of Senet

Author(s): Walter Crist
Published in: Board Game Studies Journal, Issue 21833311, 2021, ISSN 2183-3311
Publisher: De Gruyter Poland
DOI: 10.2478/bgs-2021-0002

ACG 2021 Conference Report

Author(s): C. Browne; A. Kishimoto; J. Schaeffer
Published in: ICGA Journal, Issue 44:1, 2022, Page(s) 39-42, ISSN 1389-6911
Publisher: International Computer Games Association

Spatial State-Action Features for General Games

Author(s): D. J. N. J. Soemers; É . Piette; M. Stephenson; C. Browne
Published in: Artificial Intelligence, Issue 321, 2023, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 0004-3702
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Deep Learning for General Game Playing with Ludii and Polygames

Author(s): Dennis J.N.J. Soemers; Vegard Mella; Cameron Browne; Olivier Teytaud
Published in: ICGA Journal, 43(3), 146 - 161. IOS Press, Issue 13896911, 2022, Page(s) 146-161, ISSN 1389-6911
Publisher: International Computer Games Association
DOI: 10.3233/icg-220197

Report on the 2nd Digital Ludeme Project Workshop

Author(s): C. Browne; É . Piette; W. Crist; M. Stephenson; D. J. N. J. Soemers
Published in: ICGA Journal, Issue 44:2, 2022, Page(s) 56-66, ISSN 1389-6911
Publisher: International Computer Games Association

Report on the Digital Ludeme Project

Author(s): Soemers, Dennis J.N.J.; Crist, Walter; Browne, Cameron
Published in: ICGA Journal, Issue 2019, 2019, ISSN 1389-6911
Publisher: International Computer Games Association

Extracting Tactics Learned from Self-Play in General Games

Author(s): D. J. N. J. Soemers; S. Samothrakis; É. Piette; M. Stephenson
Published in: Information Sciences, Issue 624, 2023, Page(s) 277-298, ISSN 0020-0255
Publisher: Elsevier BV

The Digital Ludeme Project: Combining archaeological and computational methods for the study of ancient board games

Author(s): W. Crist; D. J. N. J. Soemers
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 49, 2023, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV

AI for Ancient Games

Author(s): Cameron Browne
Published in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Issue 34/1, 2020, Page(s) 89-93, ISSN 0933-1875
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13218-019-00600-6