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  computer strategy game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Strategy games are typically board games or video games with the players' decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome.
Abstract games cannot be cleanly divided from simulations and so games can be thought of as existing on a continuum of almost pure abstraction (like Abalone) to almost pure simulation (like Strat-o-matic Baseball).
Usually applied only to certain computer strategy games, this indicates that the action in the game is continuous, and players will have to make their decisions and actions within the backdrop of a constantly changing game state.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Computer_strategy_game   (435 words)

  
 Strategy game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strategy games are typically board games, video or computer games with the players' decision-making skills having a high significance in determining the outcome.
In abstract strategy games, the game is only loosely tied to a real-world theme, if at all.
Usually applied only to certain computer strategy games, the moniker "real-time strategy" indicates that the action in the game is continuous, and players will have to make their decisions and actions within the backdrop of a constantly changing game state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategy_game   (633 words)

  
 Abstract strategy game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Enginuity Games A game of luck and strategy where the object is to make as many 3-in-a-rows as possible in any direction.
An abstract idea (Metaphysics):, An idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure.
Abstract terms, Those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities.
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 Abstract strategy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players.
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Bughouse Strategy from Errant Fischer Top ten ways to tell you have a bad bughouse partner, and other strategy hints and annotated bughouse games.
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 Defining the Abstract
The word "abstract" is used because such games usually are presented with no theme, or in which the theme is not important to the experience of playing.
A good abstract game can therefore be thought of as a "family" of potentially interesting logic puzzles, and the play consists of each player posing such a puzzle to the other.
The design of a good abstract game must therefore allow an inexhaustible supply of interesting puzzles to be discovered in the possible positions of its board.
www.thegamesjournal.com /articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml   (2011 words)

  
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The "strategy" part of the design captures the "variant" nature of the design where the particular actions are chosen dynamically in the run time.
The strategy section consists of an abstract strategy class and a series of concrete strategy subclasses.
For identifying a strategy pattern in a design in order that it can be applied, it is necessary to first identify if an algorithm exists, and then see whether the algorithm can be logically separated from the class, which is intended to use it.
www.myjavaserver.com /~mkanojia/patterns/Strategy.html   (936 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For a given class graph, an abstract strategy is mapped into a concrete strategy which defines a path set.
We say that a concrete strategy C is compatible with respect to an abstract strategy A, if for C, viewed as a class graph, Pathset(C,A) is non-empty.
His implementation is also available as a program which takes as input a strategy graph and a class dictionary and it produces as output the class dictionary selected by the strategy.
www.ccs.neu.edu /research/demeter/projects/darpa2/progress/dec97/dec97.txt   (657 words)

  
 "ABSTRACT STRATEGY" related terms, short phrases and links (Archive 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Producers of the abstract strategy game claim that it is not as complex as chess but more challenging than checkers.
In abstract strategy games, players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used.
An index of modern abstract strategy games--a tool for game collectors and a stage for game designers to display their creations.
www.keywen.com /en/ABSTRACT_STRATEGY   (157 words)

  
 Abstract Games magazine: game strategy articles, game reviews, news : MAGAZINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hex is an abstract board game that has fascinated mathematicians with its beauty and surprising difficulty since it was first invented over half a century ago.
The study of Hex strategy is an attempt to reduce this complexity to a manageable level and tame the game's branching factor by pruning suboptimal choices from the game tree.
It is regular and hence uniform in distribution, is the regular tiling with the greatest number of neighbors and hence connective potential and scope for strategy, and does not allow deadlocks to occur.
www.abstractgamesmagazine.com /hex.html   (1863 words)

  
 Poverty resources: Listing
Abstract: The BCTF, founded in 1999, is a consortium of conservation organizations and scientists dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations threatened by commercial hunting of...
Abstract: The report appraises the impact of economic development, or lack thereof, on the welfare of the Colombian population, and the poor in particular, over the...
Abstract: The EVRI is intended primarily as a tool to assist policy analysts using the benefits transfer approach to estimate economic values for changes in environmental...
earthtrends.wri.org /povlinks/poverty_resource.cfm?poverty_stheme_ID=th-2   (532 words)

  
 AIWisdom.com - Game Articles & Research
Abstract: While there are numerous articles dedicated to the generation of random maps for games, there is little published information on random maps for strategy games in particular.
Abstract: Unit AI refers to the micro-level artificial intelligence that controls a specific unit in a game and how that unit reacts to input from the player and the game world.
Abstract: Dead reckoning is a set of techniques used to calculate the motion of objects not entirely within an agent's control.
www.aiwisdom.com /bygenre_rts.html   (2548 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The abstract strategy graph represents all possible class graphs which may be used, without talking about parts.
The abstract strategy graph can also be viewed as the integration of all strategy graph types used in the adaptive program.
An adaptive program is best written in terms of an abstract strategy graph (a strategy "type") which describes the important connections which must exist in a class graph used to instantiate the program.
www.ccs.neu.edu /research/demeter/design-decisions/visitors/with-mira/strategy-types/NOTES   (282 words)

  
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The separation of the variant and invariant behaviors of a system: Encapsulate the invariant into an object and abstract the variant into an abstract hierarchy tree.
Strategies give us the ability to modify the behavior dynamically, that is, during the execution of the program.
The strategy pattern eliminated the subclasses of Ball and replaced it with smaller, simpler subclasses of AStrategy that encapsulate only the differences between the behaviors of different types of Balls.
www.exciton.cs.rice.edu /cs150/notes/lec07.htm   (138 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We propose an abstract strategy which is parametrized by three mathematical functions called definition-folding, selection, and replacement.
Once these three functions are supplied, our abstract strategy becomes a concrete one which can be used during program development for driving the application of the Definition, Folding, Unfolding, and Goal Replacement Rules.
We also show through some examples that many program derivation strategies described in the literature, such as the methodology for eliminating unnecessary variables, the tupling strategy, the partial deduction techniques, and the promotion strategy, can be viewed as particular instances of our abstract strategy.
www.iasi.rm.cnr.it /iasi/Publications/abstract/345.html   (214 words)

  
 Simon Dyck Seng 609.04 Strategy Pattern Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As above, when Strategies implementations are mixed in with the algorithms of the context or of the client, it frequently means the use of conditional "ladders" or switch statements to make use of different strategies.  When such structures exist, it is often a sign that Strategy is in need.
The GoF text says that the client will need to know how Strategies differ before it can choose amongst them.  This knowledge will expose them to implementation details that may not be relevant to their own purpose.  This implies that the pattern should only be used when these differences are relevant to the client.
Use Strategies as template arguments to support different kinds of memory allocation strategies.  The strategy is passed as a template argument when a collection class is instantiated.
sern.ucalgary.ca /~sdyck/courses/seng609.04/strategy.html   (3361 words)

  
 "ABSTRACT" related terms, short phrases and links (Archive 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nov 2, 2001 Abstract strategy games are games such as Chess, with no hidden information and no chance elements.
Abstract The paper is concerned with three ways in which computer technology is impacting on the study of language.
Abstract: In modern society, the role computers play in our lives cannot be underemphasized.
www.keywen.com /en/ABSTRACT   (274 words)

  
 Abstract Game Software
3 musketeers is an abstract strategy board game for two players.
It uses the principal of unequal forces; the two players neither use the same types of pieces nor the same rules, and their victory conditions are different.
Abstract two-player strategy game with novel features, including a unique indirect method of controlling pieces.
www.gamefilesland.com /game/abstract.html   (209 words)

  
 Business Strategy Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A game of strategy is a game where the outcome is influenced through interaction with the environment and other players.
The game classification article lists games of skill and games of strategy as separate categories - but chess, checkers (draughts) and go are listed here as games of strategy but are also listed in the mind sport article, which is a sub-category of games of skill.
The best example of this series is the Total War series where players recruit and move armies, spies and diplomats on the world map, but then control the ensuing battles with an entirely different interface and commands.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/27/business-strategy-game.html   (808 words)

  
 Freeware Home - Games > Strategy
RoboWar is a freeware strategy game, the goal of the game is to make your robot crush all the other robots and be the lone survivor.
An abstract strategy game where two players trade turns placing wires on a circuit board.
Venables is an abstract two-player strategy game with a special twist: instead of moving your pieces yourself, you control them indirectly by means of a cursor on an auxiliary board where the "squares" are icons specifying the moves you will make on the main board.
www.freewarehome.com /Games/Strategy_t.html   (680 words)

  
 MadMonkey.net - Independent game network - Free games : games: strategy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tribal Trouble is a fast paced realtime strategy game where your job is to lead your cartoonish and somewhat clueless kinsmen (be it Vikings or Natives) to new discoveries and victories as tribal clas...
Buildcity is a strategy game about city building and management which takes place in 18th century.The game has many original features such as puzzle missions as well as addictive campaign and landscap...
Imperium is a strategy game simulating the Hellenistic world from Rome's first intervention in affairs outside Italy in the middle of the third century BC to the birth of the Principate a quarter of a...
www.madmonkey.net /page.cgi/strategy   (2880 words)

  
 Strategy Design Pattern in C# and VB.NET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients that use it.
code demonstrates the Strategy pattern which encapsulates functionality in the form of an object.
code demonstrates the Strategy pattern which encapsulates sorting algorithms in the form of sorting objects.
www.dofactory.com /Patterns/PatternStrategy.aspx   (181 words)

  
 Abstract Strategy Games - Abstract Strategy Board Game Repository
Abstract strategy games are probably the oldest and most widespread form of entertainment known to humankind.
Modern abstract strategy games, on the other hand, may not be as fortunate.
Sites which promote public awareness of abstract strategy games, small game companies with products that fall into the aforementioned game category, and independent game designers are invited to place a link in this site.
www.abstractstrategy.com /main.html   (169 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The abstract strategy graph may contain edges that represent "shortcuts" in the strategy graph, for example -> Program AlternationClass is such an edge.
Note that in one case the abstract strategy is longer than the concrete one since the abstract adaptive program assumes certain classes between source and target.
In this example, the abstract strategies coincide with the concrete ones.
www.ccs.neu.edu /research/demeter/course/f97/projects/CdMetrics/NOTES   (154 words)

  
 Abstract strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, go, and mancala, fit into this category.
"Defining the Abstract", a good explanation by J. Mark Thompson.
This page was last modified 19:08, 20 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abstract_strategy   (130 words)

  
 NEJM -- Comparison of Early Invasive and Conservative Strategies in Patients with Unstable Coronary Syndromes Treated ...
Roffi, M. Early invasive strategy in the diabetic patient with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes.
Yarlagadda, R. K., Boden, W. Cardioprotective effects of an early invasive strategy for non-ST-segment elevationacute coronary syndromes: Are we all becoming "interventional" cardiologists?.
A long-term perspective on the protective effects of an early invasive strategy in unstable coronary artery disease: Two-year follow-up of the FRISC-II invasive study.
content.nejm.org /cgi/content/abstract/344/25/1879   (6598 words)

  
 ManipStrategy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This abstract class serves to provide the base interface used by the pfMCS class to perform manipulations on a coordinate system.
When the manipulator is attached to the node, it will call this function to ensure the strategy has its own reference to the node being modified.
When the manipulator is attached to the node, it will call this function to ensure the strategy has its own reference to the parent of the modified node.
www.evl.uic.edu /cavern/cavernG2/modules/pfMCS/ManipStrategy.html   (184 words)

  
 AbstractStrategyGame - Seattle Cosmic Wiki
In my opinion, this is partly because "abstract strategy game" has become a prestige title applied to all sorts of games that really don't qualify, no matter how good they are on their own merits.
Other criteria that are usually applied are that abstract strategy games are for two players only (thus avoiding petty diplomacy) and that the players must alternate turns.
Defining the Abstract.) I believe another criterion that is usually applied is that an abstract strategy game is zero-sum, that is, what one player gains, the other loses; usually there is a single winner and a single loser.
www.ludism.org /scwiki/AbstractStrategyGame   (442 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Icehouse - a Boardless Abstract Strategy Game System
Strategies are varied, and shift - frequently - even within 30-second periods.
The game seems simple on the surface, but the strategies are approximately as complex as those in a game of draughts.
For those who like abstract strategy, those who like games, or those who like thinking at all, Icehouse is a truly fascinating way to pass the time, because of its large number of options and variants.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A793730   (1745 words)

  
 Small Abstract Strategy Board Games
I have put together a collection of small abstract strategy board games that can be made cheaply at home, are easily portable, and are fun to play.
Instead they are retained by the capturing player and may be reintroduced onto the board in the service of their new master.
Other strategy games I enjoy are: Fibonacci, Abalone, Terrace, Pente (download) (rules) and Chinese Chess.
home.earthlink.net /~dpjohns   (1791 words)

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