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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Combining manual feedback with subsequent MDP reward signals for reinforcement learning
As learning agents move from research labs to the real world, it is increasingly important that human users, including those without programming skills, be able to teach agents de...
W. Bradley Knox, Peter Stone
ETS
2000
IEEE
156views Hardware» more  ETS 2000»
15 years 3 months ago
Parallel On-Line and In-Class Sections of "Writing for the Professions": A Practical Experiment
This paper describes experiences with on-line and in-class sections of a writing-intensive course, including a collaborative library literacy unit. It reports on a mid-semester so...
Victoria Hay, Dennis Isbell
130
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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Towards compositional synthesis of evolving systems
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Marsha Chechik, ...
SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Computer-generated Floral Ornament
This paper describes some of the principles of traditional floral ornamental design, and explores ways in which these designs can be created algorithmically. It introduces the id...
Michael T. Wong, Douglas E. Zongker, David Salesin
135
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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
189views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year
This paper describes a new tool for introducing computer graphics and multimedia applications into first year, called QuickDraw, and our experience using it. QuickDraw provides an...
Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock