Resources that explain or investigate artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches/strategies to the game of Mahjong

Question

While Mahjong (the actual game, not Mahjong solitare) is fairly simple in terms of basic rules and gameplay, setting objectives for the AI to transition to aim for certain end game goals seems fairly complex.

Is anyone aware of any papers, research, or other materials related to this topic?

Answer 1

I think this could be what you are looking for:

A Mah Jong-Playing Program

A masters thesis written at the Department of Information Technology

by Daniel Hellsson

with supervisors Jan Eric Larsson and Bengt Öhman

1 September, 2000

http://www.it.lth.se/janeric/mastersprojects/past/hellsson/mother.pdf