by Sherry L. Buschmann., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2001., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-116).

This thesis considers three complications that arise from applying reinforcement learning to a real-world application. In the process of using reinforcement learning to build an adaptive electronic market-maker, we find the sparsity of data, the partial observability of the domain,…

Tanto en el marco de la teoría de los principios y parámetros
(Chomsky, 1981) como en el contexto de los estudios funcionalistas
(Pienemann, 1989), el papel de la transferencia o influencia interlingüística
en la adquisición de segundas lenguas se ha…

La presencia de un sistema ideológico de creencias y expectativas previas influye y puede modificar en la adopción de otras estrategias o acciones dentro del proceso de salud/enfermedad /atención. Esta situación adquiere características especiales dentro del núcleo de la relación…

An important tool for teaching is used at University of Alicante: the virtual campus. We think that information and communication technologies can help us to improve our teaching. Last year, we prepared some materials for our students and checked whether…

The Sami people have struggled for centuries to maintain their culture in spite of pressures against it from colonialism. The formal education systems of Norway and Finland have acted in discord with Sami decision-making since their inception. In response to…

Research in decision making has identified the importance of prior knowledge and heuristics on decision making behaviour. These develop with experience in a fashion similar to how domain experts develop specialized knowledge structures and heuristic reasoning patterns. This research is…

The aim of this study is to test the assumption that the depictions of ancient boxing found on Attic Black and Red Figure pottery are accurate. Due to the scarcity of ancient written material and physical evidence, most of our…

Desde los años cincuenta del siglo XX, los medios de
comunicación social son transformados contundentemente por la innovación
científico-tecnológica que les ha permitido cubrir la extensión planetaria y
conformar la Sociedad del Conocimiento, la Explosión de la Información y
la…

This study examines Christian experientialist epistemology as articulated of late by Alvin Plantinga especially and also William Alston. It situates their approach to the epistemic status of Christian belief claims within the overall outlook they have respectively developed on what…