Research Catalog

Title

Goal-driven learning / edited by Ashwin Ram and David B. Leake.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Ram, Ashwin.
• Leake, David B.

Description

xxii, 507 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Computational learning theory

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Tom Mitchell. 1. Learning, Goals, and Learning Goals / Ashwin Ram and David B. Leake -- I. Current State of the Field. 2. Planning to Learn / Lawrence Hunter. 3. Quantitative Results Concerning the Utility of Explanation-Based Learning / Steven Minton. 4. The Use of Explicit Goals for Knowledge to Guide Inference and Learning / Ashwin Ram and Lawrence Hunter. 5. Deriving Categories to Achieve Goals / Lawrence W. Barsalou. 6. Harpoons and Long Sticks: The Interaction of Theory and Similarity in Rule Induction / Edward J. Wisniewski and Douglas L. Medin. 7. Introspective Reasoning Using Meta-Explanations for Multistrategy Learning / Ashwin Ram and Michael T. Cox. 8. Goal-Directed Learning: A Decision-Theoretic Model for Deciding What to Learn Next / Marie desJardins. 9. Goal-Based Explanation Evaluation / David B. Leake. 10. Planning to Perceive / Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins.
• 11. Planning and Learning in PRODIGY: Overview of an Integrated Architecture / Jaime Carbonell, Oren Etzioni, Yolanda Gil, Robert Joseph, Craig Knoblock, Steven Minton and Manuela Veloso. 12. A Learning Model for the Selection of Problem-Solving Strategies in Continuous Physical Systems / Xiaodong Xia and Dit-Yan Yeung. 13. Explicitly Biased Generalization / Diana Gordon and Donald Perlis. 14. Three Levels of Goal Orientation in Learning / Evelyn Ng and Carl Bereiter. 15. Characterizing the Application of Computer Simulations in Education: Instructional Criteria / Jos J. A. van Berkum, Hans Hijne, Ton de Jong, Wouter R. van Joolingen and Melanie Njoo -- II. Current Research and Recent Directions. 16. Goal-Driven Learning: Fundamental Issues and Symposium Report / David B. Leake and Ashwin Ram. 17. Storage Side Effects: Studying Processing to Understand Learning / Lawrence W. Barsalou.
• 18. Goal-Driven Learning in Multistrategy Reasoning and Learning Systems / Ashwin Ram, Michael T. Cox and S. Narayanan. 19. Inference to the Best Plan: A Coherence Theory of Decision / Paul Thagard and Elijah Millgram. 20. Toward Goal-Driven Integration of Explanation and Action / David B. Leake. 21. Learning as Goal-Driven Inference / Ryszard Michalski and Ashwin Ram.

ISBN

0262181657 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

94049361

OCLC

• 31867498
• ocm31867498

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries