Optimal Learning

Author : Warren B. Powell,Ilya O. Ryzhov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118309841

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Optimal Learning by Warren B. Powell,Ilya O. Ryzhov Pdf

Learn the science of collecting information to make effective decisions Everyday decisions are made without the benefit of accurate information. Optimal Learning develops the needed principles for gathering information to make decisions, especially when collecting information is time-consuming and expensive. Designed for readers with an elementary background in probability and statistics, the book presents effective and practical policies illustrated in a wide range of applications, from energy, homeland security, and transportation to engineering, health, and business. This book covers the fundamental dimensions of a learning problem and presents a simple method for testing and comparing policies for learning. Special attention is given to the knowledge gradient policy and its use with a wide range of belief models, including lookup table and parametric and for online and offline problems. Three sections develop ideas with increasing levels of sophistication: Fundamentals explores fundamental topics, including adaptive learning, ranking and selection, the knowledge gradient, and bandit problems Extensions and Applications features coverage of linear belief models, subset selection models, scalar function optimization, optimal bidding, and stopping problems Advanced Topics explores complex methods including simulation optimization, active learning in mathematical programming, and optimal continuous measurements Each chapter identifies a specific learning problem, presents the related, practical algorithms for implementation, and concludes with numerous exercises. A related website features additional applications and downloadable software, including MATLAB and the Optimal Learning Calculator, a spreadsheet-based package that provides an introduction to learning and a variety of policies for learning.

Author : David J. Shernoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461470892

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Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement by David J. Shernoff Pdf

Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engagement as a learning experience, explaining how it occurs (or not) and how schools can adapt to maximize it among adolescents. Examples of empirically supported environments promoting engagement are provided, representing alternative high schools, Montessori schools, and extracurricular programs. The book identifies key innovations including community-school partnerships, technology-supported learning, and the potential for engaging learning opportunities during an expanded school day. Among the topics covered: Engagement as a primary framework for understanding educational and motivational outcomes. Measuring the malleability, complexity, multidimensionality, and sources of engagement. The relationship between engagement and achievement. Supporting and challenging: the instructor’s role in promoting engagement. Engagement within and beyond core academic subjects. Technological innovations on the engagement horizon. Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology; social work; educational psychology; positive psychology; family studies; and teaching/teacher education.

Author : Tzanavari, Aimilia,Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605669410

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Affective, Interactive and Cognitive Methods for E-Learning Design: Creating an Optimal Education Experience by Tzanavari, Aimilia,Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas Pdf

"This book focuses on the study and application of human computer interaction principles in the design of online education"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mikhail M. Klimenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : UCSD:31822026228072

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Optimal Learning and Experimentation in Export Promotion Policies by Mikhail M. Klimenko Pdf

Author : Volker Wieland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Banks and banking, Central
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086876368

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Monetary Policy, Parameter Uncertainty and Optimal Learning by Volker Wieland Pdf

Since central banks have limited information concerning the transmission channel of monetary policy, they are faced with the difficult task of simultaneously controlling the policy target and estimating the impact of policy actions. A tradeoff between estimation and control arises because policy actions influence estimation and provide information which may improve future performance. I analyze this tradeoff in a simple model with parameter uncertainty and conduct dynamics simulations of the policymaker's decision problem in the presence of the type of uncertainties that arose in the wake of German reunification. A policy that separates learning from control may induce a persistent upward bias in money growth and inflation, just as observed after unification. In contrast, the optimal learning strategy which exploits the tradeoff between control and estimation significantly improves stabilization performance and reduces the likelihood of inflationary bias.

Author : Josh Waitzkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743277464

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The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin Pdf

An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Mikhail V. Belov,Dmitry A. Novikov
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000344080

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Optimal Enterprise by Mikhail V. Belov,Dmitry A. Novikov Pdf

In the modern world, most gross product is created within Enterprise firms, project programs, state agencies, transnational corporations and their divisions, as well as various associations and compositions of the above entities. Enterprises, being, on the one hand, complex, and, on the other hand, widespread systems, are the subject matter of cybernetics, system theory, operations research, management sciences and many other fields of knowledge. However, the complexity of the system obstructs the development of mathematically rigorous foundations for Enterprise control. Moreover, methods of operations research and related sciences, which are widely used in practice, provide optimization of the constituents of an Enterprise, without modeling it as a whole system. But the optimization of parts does not lead to the optimality of the whole, and, also, the absence of top-down and holistic mathematical models of Enterprise contradicts the principle of holism and the system approach. The approach in this book looks first at Enterprise Systems and their essential aspects as complex sociotechnical systems composed of integrated sets of structural and process models (Chapters 1 and 2). A uniform description of all the heterogeneous fields of the modern Enterprise (marketing, sales, manufacturing, HR, finance, etc.) is then made, and the Enterprise Control Problem is posed as a top-down and holistic mathematical optimization problem (Chapter 3). Original models and methods of contract theory (Chapter 4), technology management (Chapter 5), human behavior and human capital (Chapter 6) and complex activity and resource planning (Chapter 7) are developed to solve the problem. Structural processes and mathematical models constitute an Optimal Enterprise Control Framework (Chapter 8) that provides a practical solution to the Enterprise Control Problem. This book is a resource for postgraduate and doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and professors with research interests in the following fields of science: Fundamental Complex Systems study, Complex Systems Engineering, Enterprise Systems Engineering Applications of Operations Research, Optimization, Probability and Stochastic processes to Management Science, Economics and Business Theory of the Firm Business and Management – general, strategy/leadership, organization management, operations management and management information systems Theory of Business Processes, Business Processes Improvement and Reengineering

Author : William C. Bushell,Erin L. Olivio,Neil D. Theise
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781573316774

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Longevity, Regeneration, and Optimal Health by William C. Bushell,Erin L. Olivio,Neil D. Theise Pdf

A revolution is occurring in the Western science of longevity, regeneration, and health that is elucidating the potential for extended human lifespan in an optimal state of health. This investigation is being conducted on the molecular, cellular, physiological, and psychological levels. Rigorous integrative medicine research can only be adequately developed if collaboration between scientists and practitioners from both fields is involved. This volume brings together researchers and scholars from both the Indo-Tibetan traditions and the international scientific community to open a dialogue about the potential to build a program of collaborative research to study the impact of Indo-Tibetan practices on longevity and health. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism claims that its core of meditative, yogic, and related practices can potentially produce dramatic enhancements of physiological and psychological functioning, and a substantial body of Western scientific evidence is supportive of these claims. The evidence includes direct and indirect clinical medicine and data from basic science research in physiology, neurobiology, and medicine. The reports in this volume establish a basis for a program of research that will advance our current understanding of longevity and health. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member.

Author : Derong Liu,Qinglai Wei,Ding Wang,Xiong Yang,Hongliang Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319508153

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Adaptive Dynamic Programming with Applications in Optimal Control by Derong Liu,Qinglai Wei,Ding Wang,Xiong Yang,Hongliang Li Pdf

This book covers the most recent developments in adaptive dynamic programming (ADP). The text begins with a thorough background review of ADP making sure that readers are sufficiently familiar with the fundamentals. In the core of the book, the authors address first discrete- and then continuous-time systems. Coverage of discrete-time systems starts with a more general form of value iteration to demonstrate its convergence, optimality, and stability with complete and thorough theoretical analysis. A more realistic form of value iteration is studied where value function approximations are assumed to have finite errors. Adaptive Dynamic Programming also details another avenue of the ADP approach: policy iteration. Both basic and generalized forms of policy-iteration-based ADP are studied with complete and thorough theoretical analysis in terms of convergence, optimality, stability, and error bounds. Among continuous-time systems, the control of affine and nonaffine nonlinear systems is studied using the ADP approach which is then extended to other branches of control theory including decentralized control, robust and guaranteed cost control, and game theory. In the last part of the book the real-world significance of ADP theory is presented, focusing on three application examples developed from the authors’ work: • renewable energy scheduling for smart power grids;• coal gasification processes; and• water–gas shift reactions. Researchers studying intelligent control methods and practitioners looking to apply them in the chemical-process and power-supply industries will find much to interest them in this thorough treatment of an advanced approach to control.

Author : Yoav Freund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540879862

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Algorithmic Learning Theory by Yoav Freund Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2008, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2008. The 31 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning; they address topics such as statistical learning; probability and stochastic processes; boosting and experts; active and query learning; and inductive inference.

Author : Jere E. Brophy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135163266

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Motivating Students to Learn by Jere E. Brophy Pdf

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivation theorists or theories leads naturally into discussion of specific classroom strategies. Throughout the book these principles and strategies are tied to the realities of contemporary schools and classrooms. The author employs an eclectic approach to motivation that shows how to effectively integrate the use of extrinsic and intrinsic strategies. Guidelines are provided for adapting motivational principles to group and individual differences and for doing "repair work" with students who have become discouraged or disaffected learners.

Author : Dagmara Gałajda,Paweł Zakrajewski,Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319319544

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Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective by Dagmara Gałajda,Paweł Zakrajewski,Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

This edited collection explores the processes of second language learning and teaching from a psycholinguistic perspective. Authored by leading experts in the field, the book includes studies focusing on theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of second and foreign language education. Part One offers contributions devoted to a range of learner-related factors, dealing with affective and cognitive variables, the process of reading and the acquisition of lexis. Part Two brings together papers related to teacher awareness of second language instruction that focus on conversational styles, fostering intercultural pragmatics, teacher job satisfaction, the development of instructional materials and challenges of teacher training in different contexts. It is of interest to researchers as well as graduate and postgraduate students seeking fresh inspirations for their own empirical investigations of the ways in which second and foreign languages are taught and learned.

Author : Heather Fry,Steve Ketteridge,Stephanie Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135724931

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A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by Heather Fry,Steve Ketteridge,Stephanie Marshall Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nancy Barber
Publisher : Nancy Barber
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Self-Learn Anything by Nancy Barber Pdf

Are you tired of feeling stuck in your learning process? Do you wish you could absorb new information faster and more effectively? How to Self-Learn Anything is your comprehensive guide to unlocking your full learning potential and mastering any subject that sparks your interest. In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover the secrets of self-learning, transforming the way you approach new topics and challenges. This isn't just a book; it's a roadmap to lifelong learning, a toolkit of strategies, and a life-changing experience. From understanding where and how learning happens to recognizing self-learning as a skill, each chapter is designed to break down complex concepts into digestible, actionable steps. You'll learn how to turn inspiration into results, debunk common misconceptions about self-learning, and discover how you can become an expert in anything. The book also emphasizes the role of support in self-learning, providing practical guidance on finding the right resources and creating a conducive learning environment. The conclusion pulls together all the insights, creating a strategic plan for you to break down complex topics and learn more in less time. How to Self-Learn Anything is not just for students or academics; it's for anyone who wants to keep growing, improving, and learning. Whether you're looking to pick up a new hobby, advance in your career, or simply enjoy the process of learning, this book is your key to unlocking a world of knowledge. Embrace the power of self-learning and transform your life. Get your copy of "How to Self-Learn Anything" today and start your journey towards becoming a lifelong learner.

Author : Yukinori Suzuki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 185233293X

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Soft Computing in Industrial Applications by Yukinori Suzuki Pdf

This book contains a selection of papers that were initially presented at the 4th On-Line World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications that was held in September 1999. Soft Computing provides various methodologies for developing intelligent systems that offer competitive solutions to real world problems. This book is comprised of a unique collection of papers that provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art-theory and sucessful industrial applications of soft computing around the world. It is written by some of the leading researchers in this field. This book is aimed at researchers and professional engineers who are engaged in developing intelligent systems as well as graduate students in science and engineering.