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Dr Nick Sephton

Senior Software Architect
Department of Computer Science
University of York

Nick Sephton is a Software Developer and Certified ScrumMaster with a strong background in the Software and Games Industry, and a strong academic and personal interest in Games. He previously worked for Stainless Games on the award winning Duels of the Planeswalkers series, and subsequently completed his doctorate in Artificial Intelligence in games at the University of York.

While with the DC Labs, Nick has successfully overseen the delivery of many projects, including the e-Sports analytical software Echo and the language teaching tool Gaming Grammar.

Publications

Heuristic move pruning in monte carlo tree search for the strategic card game Lords of War
Nick Sephton, Peter I Cowling, Edward Powley, Nicholas H Slaven
Combining gameplay data with monte carlo tree search to emulate human play
Sam Devlin, Anastasija Anspoka, Nick Sephton, Peter I Cowling, Jeff Rollason
Parallelization of information set monte carlo tree search
Nick Sephton, Peter I Cowling, Edward Powley, Daniel Whitehouse, Nicholas H Slaven
Using bugs and viruses to teach artificial intelligence
PI Cowling, Richard Fennell, Robert Hogg, Gavin King, Paul Rhodes, Nick Sephton
Win Prediction in Esports: Mixed-Rank Match Prediction in Multi-player Online Battle Arena Games
Victoria Hodge, Sam Devlin, Nick Sephton, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, Peter Cowling
Using association rule mining to predict opponent deck content in android: Netrunner
Nick Sephton, Peter I Cowling, Sam Devlin, Victoria J Hodge, Nicholas H Slaven
An experimental study of action selection mechanisms to create an entertaining opponent
Nick Sephton, Peter I Cowling, Nicholas H Slaven
Narrative Bytes: Data-Driven Content Production in Esports
Florian Block, Victoria Hodge, Stephen Hobson, Nick Sephton, Sam Devlin, Marian F Ursu, Anders Drachen, Peter I Cowling
How the Business Model of Customisable Card Games Influences Player Engagement
Victoria Hodge, Nick Sephton, Sam Devlin, Peter Cowling, Nikolaos Goumagias, Jianhua Shao, Kieran Purvis, Ignazio Cabras, Kiran Fernandes, Feng Li