Investigations with Monte Carlo Tree Search for finding better multivariate Horner schemes (abstract)

After the defeat of the human chess World Champion in 1997, many researchers turned their attention to the oriental game of Go. The minimax approach, so successful in chess, did not work in Go. Instead, around 2006 a new method was developed: MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search). The success of MCTS in Go caused researchers to apply the method to...

Transitions in the global container system

The current ‘great recession’ results in a break in the pattern of nearly five decades of continued growth in global container operations. The container system is one of the great enabling technologies behind the global economy. At the same time, the system has a number of serious drawbacks like large negative externalities, the empty box...