Purpose – Criminal elements in today’s technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. While many anti-money laundering (AML) solutions have been in place for some time within the financial community, they face the challenge to adapt to the ever-changing risk and methods in relation to money laundering (ML). This...

The life-long learning architecture attempts to create an adaptive agent through the incorporation of prior knowledge over the lifetime of a learning agent. Our paper focuses on task transfer in reinforcement learning and specifically in Q-learning. There are three main model free methods for performing task transfer in Qlearning: direct transfer, soft transfer and memoryguided exploration. In ...

a simple method has been employed to synthesize copper and copper oxide nanoparticles from copper (ii) succinate precursor by thermal decomposition method using oleylamine as a capping agent. the particles synthesized with oleylamine and triphenylphosphine were well dispersed nanoparticles obtained from x-ray diffraction (xrd). the synthesized copper nanoparticles were characterized by uv-visib...

A key objective of transfer learning is to improve and speedup learning on a target task after training on a different, but related, source task. This study presents a neuro-evolution method that transfers evolved policies within multi-agent tasks of varying degrees of complexity. The method incorporates behavioral diversity (novelty) search as a means to boost the task performance of transferr...

Cachin et al. and Algesheimer et al. proposed schemes using secure function evaluation for protecting mobile agents in untrusted environments. One of essential ingredients of their protocols is oblivious transfer (although not all of them require it). Unfortunately, naive application of oblivious transfer is inefficient because it must be performed for each bit of encrypted circuit inputs. Ther...

In the present research, the selective oxidation of lauryl alcohol to lauraldehyde was studied under liquid-liquid phase transfer conditions using potassium chromate (K2CrO4) as an oxidizing agent and tetrabutyl ammonium bromide (TBAB) as the phase transfer catalyst. Chromium (VI) reagents are used in these oxidations since the alcohols are selectively oxidized <e...

There are many successful methods for transferring information from one agent to another. One approach, taken in this work, is to have one (source) agent demonstrate a policy to a second (target) agent, and then have that second agent improve upon the policy. By allowing the target agent to observe the source agent’s demonstrations, rather than relying on other types of direct knowledge transfe...