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In this paper we present a method for extending the capabilities of a reactive agent using learning. The method relies on the emergence of more global behavior from the interaction of smaller behavioral units. To coordinate behaviors we use a dynamic self-organizing feature map and reinforcement learning. The dynamic self-organizing map is used to partition the space of sequences of situations into different regions. Reinforcement learning refines the content of the regions based on the experience of the agent. We show the effectiveness of the method and evaluate it through several simulation studies.
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Hamdi, M.S., Kaiser, K. (1998). Learning intelligent behavior. In: Antoniou, G., Slaney, J. (eds) Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. AI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095048
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