Learning near-optimal search in a minimal explore/exploit task

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2800-2805

  Sang, Ke ^a   Todd, Peter M ^a   Goldstone, Robert L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

exploitation; exploration; explore exploit tradeoff; optimal search; threshold strategy

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITATION; EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATIONS; EXPLORE/EXPLOIT TRADEOFF; NEAR-OPTIMAL; NUMBER OF SWITCHES; OPTIMAL SEARCH; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PEOPLE SEARCHES; SIMPLE++; THRESHOLD STRATEGY;

EID: 84872744735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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