[scot.announce] Seminar on Classifier Systems at Dept of AI, Edinburgh

gordon@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Reid) (06/25/91)

AI Departmental Seminar at 2pm, 26 June in F10, 80 South Bridge.

         "Classifier Systems for Situated Autonomous Learning"

                           Gary Roberts
                            Dept of AI
                       Edinburgh University

Abstract:

    Intelligent control of an autonomous agent situated within some
environment is a difficult task.  I have investigated the use of
genetic algorithms and classifier systems for control of autonomous
agents within simple simulated environments.  Extensive comparisons
have been made between the performance of a simple classifier system
and classifier systems that have been modified to make use of explicit
world models and planning strategies (including simple lookahead and
methods developed from Q-Learning and Dyna Q-Learning).  The results
point up an interesting dichotomy about the utility of experimentation
within real world and simulated environments.


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