README.txt

Neural Nine Men's Morris

Neural Nine Men's Morris (NNMM) is a software capable to build, train, test and use Deep Neural Networks which can be used for playing the game of Nine Men's Morris. It has been demonstrated that the system is capable to learn to play by the rules of the game, even if the knowledge of those rules has not been provided to it. It has been designed by Andrea Galassi, as part of his master thesis in Computer Science Engineering ("Ingegneria Informatica", in italian), and it has been improved as part of a successive work. Please feel free to contact him (a.galassi at unibo.it) or his thesis supervisors (Paola Mello, paola.mello at unibo.it, Federico Chesani federico.chesani at unibo.it) for further questions.

The result of this work have been published in IEEE Transactions on Games: https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2018.2804039
Further information can be found on the software website: http://ai.unibo.it/NNMM


Implementation

The system has been written in Python language, relying on the Lasagne, Theano and Numpy libraries.


License

The software is under MIT license. Further details can be found in the file LICENSE.txt