Evolving neural networks for online reinforcement learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5199 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 518-527

  Metzen, Jan Hendrik ^a   Edgington, Mark ^b   Kassahun, Yohannes ^b   Kirchner, Frank ^a,b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; BENCHMARKING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; E-LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACTUATOR SIGNALS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; BENCHMARK PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS STATE SPACES; EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITIONS; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURAL TOPOLOGIES; NEUROEVOLUTION; OFFLINE LEARNINGS; ONLINE PERFORMANCES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTUATOR SIGNALS; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; CONTINUOUS STATE SPACE; EVALUATION PHASE; EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITION; EVOLVING NEURAL NETWORK; OFF-LINE LEARNING; ON-LINE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 56449120845     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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