Publications


Thesis

Accelerating Reinforcement Learning through Imitation (ps  3.5 MB)  (ps.gz 500k)   (pdf 1.4 MB )
 

Accepted to Refereed Journal

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (2002), Accelerating Reinforcement Learning through Implicit Imitation, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. To Appear.
 

Published in Refereed Conferences

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (2003). A Bayesian Approach to Imitation in Reinforcement Learning, Submitted to IJCAI 03.

Craig Boutilier, Ray Reiter and Bob Price (2001).  Symbolic Dynamic Programming for First-order MDPs. The Seventeenth  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 01,  690-97. Seattle, Washington, August 4-10.

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (2001).  Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in Agents with Heterogeneous Actions.
in Advanced in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Biennal Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,  AI 2001. 111-120.  Ottawa, Canada.
 

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (1999). Implicit Imitation in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. Machine Learning, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference ICML '99,  325-334. Bled, Slovenia.

Jim E. Greer, Gordon I. McCalla, Bob Price and Peter Holt (1994), Supporting the Learning of Recursion at a Distance. World Conference on Multimedia and Hypermedia, 652. Vancouver, Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE).

B.R. Price, G.I. McCalla and J.E. Greer (1994). Combining Scaffolding and Diagnosis in a
Distributed Tutoring System. East-West Conference  on Computer Technologies in Education. EW-ED, Simferopol, Ukraine.

B.R. Price and L.Y. Price (1994). Value-Driven Learning in Autonomous Information Agents. 7th international Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and  Cybernetics. August  International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

Accepted in Refereed Workshops

 Craig Boutilier, Ray Reiter, and Bob Price (2001). Symbolic Dynamic Programming for First-Order MDP's.    Common Sense 2001, Fifth Symposium on   Logical Formalizations Of Commonsense Reasoning May 20-22, 2001.  New York University,  New York, NY.

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (2000). Imitation and Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Actions.
in Proceedings of the AISB'00 Sympoisum on Starting from Society - the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems, 85-92. Birmingham, UK.

Bob Price and Craig Boutilier (1999). Implicit imitation in multiagent reinforcement learning.  IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agents Learning About, From and With other  - Agents 2,  August 1999, Stockholm, Sweden.
 

Poster Presentations

Bob Price (1998). Imitation and Reinforcement Learning,  8th Annual PRECARN / IRIS Conference. Vancouver from June 15-17.