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NIPS
2001
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PAC Generalization Bounds for Co-training
The rule-based bootstrapping introduced by Yarowsky, and its cotraining variant by Blum and Mitchell, have met with considerable empirical success. Earlier work on the theory of c...
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Michael L. Littman, David A. McAl...
NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
The Steering Approach for Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning
We consider the problem of learning to attain multiple goals in a dynamic environment, which is initially unknown. In addition, the environment may contain arbitrarily varying ele...
Shie Mannor, Nahum Shimkin
ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present t...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
SIROCCO
1998
13 years 9 months ago
The counting pyramid: an adaptive distributed counting scheme
A distributed counter is a concurrent object which provides a fetch-and-increment operation on a shared value. On the basis of a distributed counter, one can implement various fun...
Roger Wattenhofer, Peter Widmayer
AAAI
1994
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Activity Analysis: The Qualitative Analysis of Stationary Points for Optimal Reasoning
We present a theory of a modeler's problem decomposition skills in the context of optimal reasonzng -- the use of qualitative modeling to strategically guide numerical explor...
Brian C. Williams, Jonathan Cagan