The development of the XCS Learning Classifier System has produced a robust and stable implementation that performs competitively in direct-reward environments. Although investig...
This paper presents our ongoing study of the current/future impact of social bookmarks (or social tags) on information retrieval (IR). Our main research question asked in the pres...
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...
We present a quality assessment procedure for correspondence estimation based on geometric coherence rather than ground truth. The procedure can be used for performance evaluation...
In reinforcement learning, least-squares temporal difference methods (e.g., LSTD and LSPI) are effective, data-efficient techniques for policy evaluation and control with linear v...
Michael H. Bowling, Alborz Geramifard, David Winga...