ACRL officers for 1988-89

Occasional Paper No. 89-1: Employment of Black and Hispanic Police Officers, 1983-1988: A Follow-up Study

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

The annual variation in activity and funding for acute public hospitals in NSW, 1988-89 to 1992-93.

Casemix-based funding was introduced into the Victorian health system without an assessment of the annual variation in inpatient activity. Before undertaking such a funding reform, it would be appropriate to determine the level of annual variation in inpatient activity for individual hospitals that could be attributable to chance or random variation. If the annual random variation is not accoun...

New Officers for AAAI

At IJCAI-95, Randall Davis assumed the office of president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Davis is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate director of the AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Davis succeeds Barbara Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harva...

Entomology for Medical Officers

compass a general account of those arthropods with which the medical officer in tropical climates is concerned. It goes without saying that, coming from the pen it does, the book fulfils its aim. But it does more than this; it compresses into an extraordinarily small compass, an enormous amount of information. The language is a model of conciseness with the occasional diversion of a gentle gibe...