Integrated Exploration Studies in 40-year Mature Acreage: 2200 BOPD Production Reward

Integrated Drift Exploration Studies on N0rthe:rn Vancouver Island

northern Vancouver Island has examined parts or all of map sheets 92L/5, 6(W), 11(W), 12 and 1021/9 (Figure 1). The ohiectives and results of these integrated have been well summarized (Panteleyev el al., 1994) and detailed in a series of discipline spec:ific publications (e.g. Nixon et nl., 1994; Sibbick and Laurus, 1995, this volume). With rerpect to the drift exploration program, stu...

An experiment in integrated exploration

Integrated exploration strategy advocated in this paper refers to a tight coupling between the tasks of localization, mapping, and motion control and the effect of this coupling on the overall effectiveness of an exploration strategy. Our approach to exploration calls for a balanced evaluation of alternative motion actions from the point of view of information gain, localization quality, and na...

Eecient Exploration for Optimizing Immediate Reward

We consider the problem of learning an eeective behavior strategy from reward. Although much studied, the issue of how to use prior knowledge to scale optimal behavior learning up to real-world problems remains an important open issue. We investigate the inherent data-complexity of behavior learning when the goal is simply to optimize immediate reward. Although easier than reinforcement learnin...

Mineral Exploration and Development: Risk and Reward

Efficient exploration for optimizing immediate reward

We consider the problem of learning an effective behavior strategy from reward. Although much studied, the issue of how to use prior knowledge to scale optimal behavior learning up to real-world problems remains an important open issue. We investigate the inherent data-complexity of behavior-learning when the goal is simply to optimize immediate reward. Although easier than reinforcement learni...