CORRECTION: Re: NIPS preprint available via Neuroprose (ftp only)

[Steven J. Nowlan]

I apologize for the extra bandwidth, but the first announcement of this paper
omitted the name of the first author. My apologies to Tim, who did all the
hard work. -S.

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The following paper has been placed in the Neuroprose
archive at Ohio State. The file is nowlan.nips94.ps.Z.
Only the electronic version of this paper is available.
This paper is 8 pages in length.
This is a preprint of the paper to appear in Advance in Neural Information
Processing Systems 6.
This file contains 5 embedded postscript figures and is 1.8 Mbytes
uncompressed. It may not print on some printers with limited memory.


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                        Mixtures of Controllers for
                     Jump Linear and Non-linear Plants

             Timothy W. Cacciatore                Steven J. Nowlan
          Department of Neurosciences              Synaptics, Inc.
        University of California at San Diego   2698 Orchard Parkway
               La Jolla, CA 92093                San Jose, CA 95134

                            ABSTRACT:

We describe an extension to the Mixture of Experts architecture for modelling
and controlling dynamical systems which exhibit multiple modes of behavior.
This extension is based on a Markov process model, and suggests a recurrent
network for gating a set of linear or non-linear controllers. The new
architecture is demonstrated to be capable of learning effective control
strategies for jump linear and non-linear plants with multiple modes of
behavior. 

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Steven J. Nowlan
Synaptics, Inc.
2698 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, CA
95134

e-mail: nowlan at synaptics.com
phone: (408) 434-0110 x118