ACRL Programs and meetings

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...

Meetings and positions

Section includes advertisements for announcements of meetings, positions, or other related events. Price Structure: 1995 rates are $200/£320 for a quarter page, $300/£480 tot a half page, and $500/£800 for a full page. Discounts are offered on ads placed in more than one Current Biology Ltd. journal. Rates for colottr advertisements are given upon request. Rates are non-commissionable. Ad Size:...

Meetings: Do's and Don'ts.

Do 1. Emphasize that the meeting quality belongs to everyone 2. Have clear meeting objectives (e.g., share info, make a decision) 3. Insist on meeting discipline 4. Stay on topic 5. Define the meeting process 6. Offer creative solutions 7. Let others lead the discussion at times 8. Define & uphold shared values 9. Be open, humble, vulnerable 10. Be "present," engaged 11. Listen deeply 12. Recog...

Meetings and Mechanisms∗

We analyze a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms. A general meeting technology governs how buyers and sellers meet. We introduce a one-to-one transformation of this meeting technology that helps to clarify and extend many of the existing results in the literature, which has focused on two special cases: urn-ball and bilateral meetings. We show that the...

Meetings reports