Purpose – This study aims to examine how systems for organizing information may present an authorial voice and shows how the mechanism of voice may work to persuasively communicate a point of view on the materials being collected and described by the information system. Design/methodology/approach – The paper synthesizes a conceptual framework from the field of rhetoric and composition and uses...

We introduce a class of variational actor-critic algorithms based on formulation over both the value function and policy. The objective consists two parts: one for maximizing other minimizing Bellman residual. Besides vanilla gradient descent with policy updates, we propose variants, clipping method flipping method, in order to speed up convergence. also prove that, when prefactor residual is s...

This paper discusses convergence issues when training adaptive critic designs (ACD) to control dynamic systems expressed as Markov sequences. We critically review two published convergence results of critic-based training and propose to shift emphasis towards more practically valuable convergence proofs. We show a possible way to prove convergence of ACD training.

A variety of methods for developing quasi-optimal intelligent control systems using reinforcement learning techniques based on adaptive critics have appeared in recent years. This paper reviews the family of approximate dynamic programming techniques based on adaptive critic methods and introduces a new hybrid critic training method.

An intelligent robot is a remarkably useful combination of a manipulator, sensors and controls. The use of these machines in factory automation can improve productivity, increase product quality and improve competitiveness. This paper presents a discussion of recent and future technical and economic trends. During the past twenty years the use of industrial robots that are equipped not only wit...

Horizon of expectations, as a core concept in Reception Aesthetics, provides a new methodological basis for literary translation. Owing to this theory, literary translation is no longer a one-way process which is text-centered and transmitted by a translator with readers passively accepting everything, but an ever-going dialogic process between translator and the literary work, and between tran...

this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

This paper explores the cross-cultural dynamics and contradictions that surface when attempting to apply universal claims of Marxist literary aesthetics particular case a non-Western national tradition. More specifically, key work 1930s proletarian writer, Kobayashi Takiji (“The Factory Ship”) his mentoring relationship critic, Kurahara Korehito, will be analyzed by examining tensions in trying...