Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-Art (Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, 12)
Brand: Springer
Categories: Books, Computers & Technology, Computer Science



Dimensions: 6.14 x 1.44 x 9.21 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 364227644X
Publisher: Springer
Print length: 672 pages
Publication date: March 14, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-3642276446
Edition: 2012th
subtitle: 2012th Edition
author: Marco Wiering Martijn van Otterlo
review: Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover Reinforcement learning encompasses both a science of adaptive behavior of rational beings in uncertain environments and a computational methodology for finding optimal behaviors for challenging problems in control, optimization and adaptive behavior of intelligent agents. As a field, reinforcement learning has progressed tremendously in the past decade. The main goal of this book is to present an up-to-date series of survey articles on the main contemporary sub-fields of reinforcement learning. This includes surveys on partially observable environments, hierarchical task decompositions, relational knowledge representation and predictive state representations. Furthermore, topics such as transfer, evolutionary methods and continuous spaces in reinforcement learning are surveyed. In addition, several chapters review reinforcement learning methods in robotics, in games, and in computational neuroscience. In total seventeen different subfields are presented by mostly young experts in those areas, and together they truly represent a state-of-the-art of current reinforcement learning research. Marco Wiering works at the artificial intelligence department of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has published extensively on various reinforcement learning topics. Martijn van Otterlo works in the cognitive artificial intelligence group at the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. He has mainly focused on expressive knowledge representation in reinforcement learning settings.