The reinforcement learning competitions

AI Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-94

  Whiteson, Shimon ^a   Tanner, Brian ^b   White, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MACHINE LEARNING;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AGENT; ROBUST LEARNING; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 79951878534     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v31i2.2227     Document Type: Article

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