The Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem has been widely researched an applied in several areas (Sutton & Barto, 1998; Sutton, 1988; Singh & Sutton, 1996; Schapire & Warmuth, 1996; Tesauro, 1995; Si & Wang, 2001; Van Buijtenen et al., 1998). In dynamical environments, a learning agent gets rewards or penalties, according to its performance for learning good actions. In identification problems, i...

In this paper, describing functions (DF) of relay with hysteresis is used for identification of systems. Describing function analysis is widely adopted in relay feedback-based identification methods because of the ease of computation involved and the general usefulness of the method. In process control systems, the noises come from measuring devices, control valves or the process itself. Dur in...

This paper considers the government's initiative to change the teaching of literacy in primary schools in England. It draws on evidence from a one-year ESRC funded project that observed teaching in the first year of the NLS and a two-year follow-up study that revisited and re-interviewed several of the teachers from the original study. It proposes that, although substantial changes have been ma...

Project DIAPLASIS (Greek Acronym for “Online Platform for School – Family Collaboration”) is a Doctoral Thesis aiming to develop an online system that allows collaboration between school and family, and to evaluate possible learning results in a two-year intervention with at-risk students. At least 9% of students in Cyprus are found to be at risk of failure in Language and Mathematics. Research...

This paper describes the process used to develop and implement an assessment plan from the ground up for a new Master of Information Systems program. The mapping of learning goals to objectives to specific courses is illustrated with direct and indirect measures. The program was first offered January 2008, and the second cohort of completed January, 2010. Assessment results from the first two c...