Simple heuristics from the Adaptive Toolbox: Can we perform the requisite learning?

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-29

  Rakow, Tim ^a   Hinvest, Neal ^a   Jackson, Edward ^a   Palmer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1342284814     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780342000016     Document Type: Article

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