Ph.D. thesis on temporal abstraction

[Juergen Schmidhuber]

Re: Amy McGovern's announcement of "Autonomous Discovery of Temporal
Abstractions from Interaction with an Environment"
 
Let us not forget Mark Ring's early work on temporal abstraction for
reinforcement learning, e.g:
 
Mark. B. Ring: Incremental Development of Complex Behaviors through
Automatic Construction of Sensory-Motor Hierarchies.
Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop,
In L. Birnbaum and G. Collins, eds., 343-347, Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.
 
Additional algorithms in his NIPS 5 paper (1993) and his 1994 thesis.
Maybe also check out http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/subgoals.html
 
 
Juergen Schmidhuber                  http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen