[comp.ai.digest] Credit Assignment Problem

dg1v+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (David Greene) (04/21/88)

Obviously, it will depend on the technique and domain you are involved with,
but Holland and Smith both offer some interesting insights into some of the
issues... especially with regard to genetic algorithms and classifier systems.


Holland,J.H.  "Escaping Brittleness: the Possibilities of General Purpose
Learning Algorithms Applied to Parallel Rule-Based Systems" in Machine
Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, volume II,  R. Michalski, J.
Carbonell, and T. Mitchell (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1986.

Smith, S.F.  "Adaptive Learning Systems" in Expert Systems, Principles and Case
Studies, R. Forsyth (Ed.),  Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1984, chpt. 11.


Hope these are useful.

-David
dg1v@andrew.cmu.edu