Deciding which skill to learn when: Temporal-difference competence-based intrinsic motivation (TD-CB-IM)

Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems

Volumn 9783642323751, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-278

  Baldassarre, Gianluca ^a   Mirolli, Marco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; MOTIVATION;

EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION; HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED; LEARN+; MOTIVATION MECHANISM; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING MODELS; SKILLS ACQUISITION; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCE LEARNING; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SKILL ACQUISITION;

MOTIVATION; EDUCATION;

EID: 84904871924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32375-1_11     Document Type: Chapter

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