er provides new techniques for abstracting the state space of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). These techniques extend one of the recent minimization models, known as -reduction, ...
— We consider the problem of optimal control in continuous and partially observable environments when the parameters of the model are not known exactly. Partially Observable Mark...
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Hyper-heuristics are identified as the methodologies that search the space generated by a finite set of low level heuristics for solving difficult problems. One of the iterative h...
In several agent-oriented scenarios in the real world, an autonomous agent that is situated in an unknown environment must learn through a process of trial and error to take actio...