This paper presents BTT-Go: an agent for Go whose architecture is based on the well-known agent Fuego, that is, its search process for the best move is based on simulations of games performed by means of MonteCarlo Tree Search (MCTS). In Fuego, these simulations are guided by supervised heuristics called prior knowledge and play-out policy. In this context, the goal behind the BTT-Go proposal i...

FUEGO is both an open-source software framework and a state of the art program that plays the game of Go. The framework supports developing game engines for fullinformation two-player board games, and is used successfully in a substantial number of projects. The FUEGO Go program became the first program to win a game against a top professional player in 9×9 Go. It has won a number of strong tou...

The objective of this paper is to provide an integrative approach to taxonomic composition and distributional information on the weevil fauna (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. A total of 39 species belonging to 17 Curculionidae genera are recorded for the archipelago. Most of these belong to two subfamilies: Entiminae (13 species in four genera) and Cyclominae (2...

Recently, Factorization Bradley-Terry (FBT) model is introduced for fast move prediction in the game of Go. It has been shown that FBT outperforms the state-of-the-art fast move prediction system of Latent Factor Ranking (LFR). In this paper, we investigate the problem of integrating feature knowledge learned by FBT model in Monte Carlo Tree Search. We use the open source Go program Fuego as th...

Storage capacity on limited and mobile devices has risen rapidly in recent years. The amount of available processing capacity is, however, still low, as it is limited by battery capacity. In this talk we look at techniques for efficiently processing the increasing amounts of data in XML format that can be fit on a mobile phone. The techniques were developed by the author and Jaakko Kangasharju ...

Control or eradication of exotic species is one of the greatest challenges facing biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) were released and became feral in the southern region of Chilean Tierra del Fuego Island in the 1900s. Currently, they inhabit part of Karukinka Natural Park, an area of global conservation concern. To gain insight into the control of th...

The Open Source mobility middleware developed in the Fuego Core project provides a stack for efficient XML processing on limited devices. Its components are a persistent map API, advanced XML serialization and out-of-order parsing with byte-level access (XAS), data structures and algorithms for lazy manipulation and random access to XML trees (RefTree), and a component for XML document manageme...

Fifteen guanacos were introduced to Staats Island in the Falklands/Malvinas archipelago from Patagonia in the 1930s. Twenty five years later, the population was culled from 300 to 10-20 individuals, but quickly rebounded to a population of almost 400 animals that today retain the genetic signature of the founding event and later bottleneck. The goals of this study were to (i) make a genetic ass...

In Monte Carlo Tree Search, simulations play a crucial role since they replace the evaluation function used in classical game tree search and guide the development of the game tree. Despite their importance, not too much is known about the details of how they work. This paper starts a more in-depth study of simulations, using the game of Go, and in particular the program Fuego, as an example. P...