Connectionists: NIPS Reinforcement Learning Competition - UPDATE

[Adam White]

          NIPS*06 Workshop - Whistler, BC, December 9, 2006

                        "First Annual Reinforcement Learning  
Competition"

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UPDATE
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New competition software has been released. You can now evaluate your  
agents for the Pentathlon (locally). The server will be activated  
this week. You need to register your team with awhite at cs.ualberta.ca  
to use the server. However, local testing does not require an account.


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Important Dates
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Official start of competition:  October 26, 2006

Competition end: December 3, 2006

Submission deadline for Solution descriptions: December 5, 2006

The server will come online a few days after the initial software has  
been released. Participants are encouraged to begin writing agents  
and testing locally before connecting to the competition server.

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Organization Committee
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Adam White, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Richard S. Sutton, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Doina Precup, Mcgill University , Montreal, Canada
Peter Stone, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

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Technical Organization Committee
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Andrew Butcher, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada