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           Self-selection of Input Stimuli for Improving Performance


                  Stefano Nolfi              Domenico Parisi
                        Institute of Psychology, CNR
                        V.le Marx 15, 00137 Rome - Italy
           E-mail: stiva at irmkant.Bitnet  domenico at irmkant.Bitnet


                                  Abstract

  A system which behaves in an environment  can increase its performance 
  level  in  two  different ways.  It  can improve  its ability to react 
  efficiently to any stimulus that may come  from  the environment or it 
  can acquire an ability to expose itself only to a sub-class of stimuli 
  to which it knows how  to  respond efficiently. The possibility that a 
  system can solve  a  task  by  selecting favourable stimuli  is rarely 
  considered  in  designing intelligent systems. In  this paper  we show 
  that this type of ability can play a very powerful role  in explaining 
  a system's performance. 


The paper has been published in: G. A. Bekey (1993), Neural Networks and 
Robotics, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Sorry, no hard copies are available

Comments are welcome.


Stefano Nolfi
Institute of Psychology, CNR
V.le Marx, 15
00137 - Rome - Italy
email stiva at irmkant.Bitnet
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150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for nolfi.self-sel.ps.Z
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
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