Learning Search Control Knowledge: An Explanation-Based Approach

The ability to learn from experience is a fundamental requirement for intelligence. One of the most basic characteristics of human intelligence is that people can learn from problem solving, so that they become more adept at solving problems in a given domain as they gain experience. This book inves...

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Main Author: Minton, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Springer US 1988
Series:The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Learning and Expert Systems 61
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Online Access:BTU01
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Summary:The ability to learn from experience is a fundamental requirement for intelligence. One of the most basic characteristics of human intelligence is that people can learn from problem solving, so that they become more adept at solving problems in a given domain as they gain experience. This book investigates how computers may be programmed so that they too can learn from experience. Specifically, the aim is to take a very general, but inefficient, problem solving system and train it on a set of problems from a given domain, so that it can transform itself into a specialized, efficient problem solver for that domain. on a knowledge-intensive Recently there has been considerable progress made learning approach, explanation-based learning (EBL), that brings us closer to this possibility. As demonstrated in this book, EBL can be used to analyze a problem solving episode in order to acquire control knowledge. Control knowledge guides the problem solver's search by indicating the best alternatives to pursue at each choice point. An EBL system can produce domain specific control knowledge by explaining why the choices made during a problem solving episode were, or were not, appropriate
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 214 p)
ISBN:9781461317036
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4613-1703-6

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