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Publications

• Proof Number Based Monte-Carlo Tree Search
  Jakub Kowalski, Elliot Doe, Mark H. M. Winands, Daniel Górski, Dennis J. N. J. Soemers
  IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024
  
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• Introducing Tales of Tribute AI Competition
  Jakub Kowalski, Radosław Miernik, Katarzyna Polak, Dominik Budzki, Damian Kowalik
  IEEE Conference on Games, 2024
  
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• GameTable Working Group 1 meeting report on search, planning, learning, and explainability
  Dennis J.N.J. Soemers, Jakub Kowalski, Éric Piette, Achille Morenville, Walter Crist
  ICGA Journal, Volume 46, Number 1, pages 28-35, 2024
  
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• Selective Population Protocols
  Adam Gańczorz, Leszek Gasieniec, Tomasz Jurdzinski, Jakub Kowalski, Grzegorz Stachowiak
  Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems, 2024
  
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• Fast and Knowledge-Free Deep Learning for General Game Playing (Student Abstract)
  Michał Maras, Michał Kępa, Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 36, Number 21, pages 23576-23578, 2024
  
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• Summarizing Strategy Card Game AI Competition
  Jakub Kowalski, Radosław Miernik
  IEEE Conference on Games, 2023
  
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• Split Moves for Monte-Carlo Tree Search
  Jakub Kowalski, Maksymilian Mika, Wojciech Pawlik, Jakub Sutowicz, Marek Szykuła, Mark H. M. Winands
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
  
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• Developing a Successful Bomberman Agent
  Dominik Kowalczyk, Jakub Kowalski, Hubert Obrzut, Michał Maras, Szymon Kosakowski, Radosław Miernik
  International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, pages 335-344, 2022
  
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• Evolving Evaluation Functions for Collectible Card Game AI
  Radosław Miernik, Jakub Kowalski
  International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3, pages 253-260, 2022
  
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• Efficient Reasoning in Regular Boardgames
  Jakub Kowalski, Radosław Miernik, Maksymilian Mika, Wojciech Pawlik, Jakub Sutowicz, Marek Szykuła, Andrzej Tkaczyk
  IEEE Conference on Games, pages 455-462, 2020
  
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• Evolutionary Approach to Collectible Card Game Arena Deckbuilding using Active Genes
  Jakub Kowalski, Radosław Miernik
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2020
  
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• Experimental Studies in General Game Playing: An Experience Report
  Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  AAAI Workshop on Reproducible AI (RAI), 2020
  
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• A note on the empirical comparison of RBG and Ludii
  Jakub Kowalski, Maksymilian Mika, Jakub Sutowicz, Marek Szykuła
  arXiv preprint, 2019
  
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• Regular Boardgames
  Jakub Kowalski, Maksymilian Mika, Jakub Sutowicz, Marek Szykuła
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 33, Number 1, pages 1699-1706, 2019
  
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• Implementing Propositional Networks on FPGA
  Cezary Siwek, Jakub Kowalski, Chiara F. Sironi, Mark H. M. Winands
  AI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 11320 of LNCS, pages 133-145, 2018
  
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• Regular Language Inference for Learning Rules of Simplified Boardgames
  Jakub Kowalski, Andrzej Kisielewicz
  IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, pages 78-85, 2018
  
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• Strategic Features and Terrain Generation for Balanced Heroes of Might and Magic III Maps
  Jakub Kowalski, Radosław Miernik, Piotr Pytlik, Maciej Pawlikowski, Krzysztof Piecuch, Jakub Sękowski
  IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, pages 86-93, 2018
  
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• Mapping Chess Aesthetics onto Procedurally Generated Chess-Like Games
  Jakub Kowalski, Antonios Liapis, Łukasz Żarczyński
  EvoApplications 2018: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Volume 10784 of LNCS, pages 325--341, 2018
  
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• Text-based Adventures of the Golovin AI Agent
  Bartosz Kostka, Jarosław Kwiecień, Jakub Kowalski, Paweł Rychlikowski
  IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (best paper nominee), pages 181-188, 2017
  
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• Evaluating Chess-like Games Using Generated Natural Language Descriptions
  Jakub Kowalski, Łukasz Żarczyński, Andrzej Kisielewicz
  International Conference on Advances in Computer Games, Volume 10664 of LNCS, pages 127-139, 2017
  
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• A New Evolutionary Algorithm for Synchronization
  Jakub Kowalski, Adam Roman
  EvoApplications 2017: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Volume 10199 of LNCS, pages 620-635, 2017
  
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• General Game Description Languages
  Jakub Kowalski
  Ph.D Thesis, 2016
  
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• Simplified Boardgames
  Jakub Kowalski, Jakub Sutowicz, Marek Szykuła
  arXiv preprint, 2016
  
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• Experiments with Synchronizing Automata
  Andrzej Kisielewicz, Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  Implementation and Application of Automata, Volume 9705 of LNCS, pages 176-188, 2016
  
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• Evolving Chesslike Games Using Relative Algorithm Performance Profiles
  Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Volume 9597 of LNCS, pages 574-589, 2016
  
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• Towards a Real-time Game Description Language
  Jakub Kowalski, Andrzej Kisielewicz
  International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, pages 494-499, 2016
  
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• Procedural Content Generation for GDL Descriptions of Simplified Boardgames
  Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  arXiv preprint, 2015
  
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• Game Description Language for Real-time Games
  Jakub Kowalski, Andrzej Kisielewicz
  IJCAI Workshop on General Intelligence in Game-Playing Agents (GIGA), pages 23-30, 2015
  
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• Testing General Game Players Against a Simplified Boardgames Player Using Temporal-difference Learning
  Jakub Kowalski, Andrzej Kisielewicz
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1466-1473, 2015
  
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• Computing the shortest reset words of synchronizing automata
  Andrzej Kisielewicz, Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 88-124, 2015
  
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• Embedding a Card Game Language into a General Game Playing Language
  Jakub Kowalski
  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 264: STAIRS 2014, pages 161-170, 2014
  
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• Game Description Language Compiler Construction
  Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  AI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, volume 8272 of LNCS, pages 234-245, 2013
  
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• A Fast Algorithm Finding the Shortest Reset Words
  Andrzej Kisielewicz, Jakub Kowalski, Marek Szykuła
  Computing and Combinatorics, volume 7936 of LNCS, pages 182-196, 2013
  
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