Reinforcement Learning Special Issue of Machine Learning

[Rich Sutton]

Those of you interested in reinforcement learning may want to get a
copy of the special issue on this topic of the journal Machine
Learning.  It just appeared this week.  Here's the table of contents:


Vol. 8, No. 3/4 of MACHINE LEARNING (May, 1992)

Introduction: The Challenge of Reinforcement Learning
----- Richard S. Sutton (Guest Editor)

Q-Learning
----- Christopher J. C. H. Watkins and Peter Dayan

Practical Issues in Temporal Difference Learning
----- Gerald Tesauro

Transfer of Learning by Composing Solutions for Elemental Sequential Tasks
----- Satinder Pal Singh

Simple Gradient-Estimating Algorithms for Connectionist Reinforcement Learning
----- Ronald J. Williams

Temporal Differences: TD(lambda) for general Lambda
----- Peter Dayan

Self-Improving Reactive Agents Based on Reinforcement Learning, 
Planning and Teaching
----- Long-ji Lin

A Reinforcement Connectionist Approach to Robot Path Finding
in Non-Maze-Like Environments
----- Jose del R. Millan and Carme Torras


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