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…

Aunque tuvo una extensa obra literaria y de crítica historiográfica, Gonzalo Picón Febres escribió muy poco sobre la Universidad de Los Andes,

probablemente evitando hacer referencia a hombres de su familia que tuvieron la responsabilidad de enseñar y…

À l’ère de la société de la connaissance, l’éducation supérieure occupe une place
prépondérante dans le monde et les universités sont des acteurs de premier ordre.
La connaissance, à travers l’innovation qu’elle permet, est devenue un élément central du processus…

En la universidad, la producción de escritos por los estudiantes para organizar y
comunicar las representaciones sobre el conocimiento, elaboradas a partir del estudio
de las ideas de autores previamente leídos (Arnoux, Di Stefano y Pereira, 2002) es…

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…

Early in the twentieth century it was shown that Mendel's laws apply to plants and animals and that genes reside on chromosomes. In the 1950s the double-helix model of DNA inaugurated the molecular biology era, which culminated at the end…

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…

1. Academic’s knowledge mobilization , 2. Formation of a Community of Practice
for a K-12 inter-institutional project, 3. K-12 schools participants and context, 4. Educational experiences from the research field, Conclusions