[comp.ai.neural-nets] tasks for reinforcement learning

finton@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David J. Finton) (08/16/90)

I'm looking for good demonstration tasks for my 
reinforcement-learning algorithm:

(1) Are there any good examples of real-world tasks which
require reinforcement learning -- where supervised techniques
such as back-prop would be unsuitable?

(2) Are there any studies which compare performance of 
reinforcement learning systems with standard techniques
(eg, back-prop, ID3) on such tasks?

(3) Are there available standard data sets for such tasks?

(4) Are there studies comparing reinforcement learning on 
with back-prop on standard back-prop tasks?

David Finton