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The exact query complexity of yes-no permutation mastermind
Mastermind is famous two-player game. The first player (codemaker) chooses a secret code which the second player (codebreaker) is supposed to crack within a minimum number of code guesses (queries). Therefore, the codemaker's duty is to help the codebreaker by providing a well-defined error measure between the secret code and the guessed code after each query. We consider a variant, called Yes-No AB-Mastermind, where both secret code and queries must be repetition-free and the provided information by the codemaker only indicates if a query contains any correct position at all. For this Mastermind version with n positions and kÏn colors and ℓ:=k+1−n , we prove a lower bound of ∑kj=ℓlog2j and an upper bound of nlog2n+k on the number of queries necessary to break the secret code. For the important case k=n , where both secret code and queries represent permutations, our results imply an exact asymptotic complexity of Θ(nlogn) queries.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Games ; ISSN: 2073-4336 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-11 ; Basel: MDPI
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Wirtschaft
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Mastermind
permutation
query complexity
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Geistige Schöpfung
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el Ouali, Mourad
Sauerland, Volkmar
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Veröffentlichung
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MDPI
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Basel
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.3390/g11020019
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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- Artikel
Beteiligte
- el Ouali, Mourad
- Sauerland, Volkmar
- MDPI
Entstanden
- 2020