Abstract: "Complex evaluation functions arise naturally in the solution of many problems, particularly those in artificial intelligence. The ability to solve problems that involve sophisticated evaluations depends largely on how quickly and how well these evaluations can be performed. This pape...

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1. Verfasser:	Ebeling, Carl (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Seattle, Wash. 1991
Schriftenreihe:	University of Washington <Seattle, Wash.> / Department of Computer Science: Technical report 91,7,3
Schlagworte:	Evaluation Integrated circuits > Very large scale integration
Zusammenfassung:	Abstract: "Complex evaluation functions arise naturally in the solution of many problems, particularly those in artificial intelligence. The ability to solve problems that involve sophisticated evaluations depends largely on how quickly and how well these evaluations can be performed. This paper describes special-purpose hardware that utilizes high levels of integration to compute complex evaluation functions very quickly. A key property of this hardware is that it is programmable. That is, the function to be computed is specified by dynamically writing configuration information into the hardware. This flexibility allows a wide variety of evaluations to be performed by the same hardware and provides the ability to dynamically tune the evaluation function We have gained considerable experience with this evaluation architecture in the domain of chess where it has been used for the position evaluation part of the Hitech chess machine[1]. It has been extremely successful for this problem and we believe it has a greater general unity. In this paper we describe the overall evaluation architecture and its operation and discuss a range of implementations that take advantage of both the characteristics of the problem itself and the implementation medium.
Beschreibung:	10 S.