This month I submitted my paper A Brute Force Approach to Solving the Knight’s Tour using Prolog to the ICAI ‘09 conference, located at the Monte Carlo in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the conference chair, the conference acceptance rate was 27 percent. This conference is in conflict the IJCAI conference in Pasadena, California.
Nevertheless, besides my research paper, much of my activity this month has been around logic programming and inductive logic programming (ILP). I ordered from Amazon several books recently around this area, in particular The Art of Prolog and Inductive Logic Programming: From Machine Learning to Software Engineering. The Art of Prolog has a gentle introduction to logic programming – it is very clear and instructive. From this book I was able to understand early articles in Logic Programming.
I also have downloaded the book Logic, Programming and Prolog as well as the Inductive Logic Programming: Techniques and Applications from Lavrac and Dzeroski. All of this interest in Logic Programming and Inductive Logic Programming was spawned by Dr. Eduardo Morales work with his PAL system. As of result I have much reading to do. Lastly, the Dr. Nilsson’s book on Machine Learning has a chapter on Inductive Logic Programming.
As I was searching the web for more information on ILP, I found an interesting panel discussion regarding the future of ILP and Statististical Relational Learning (SRL) at videolectures website.
An important conference this month was the AAMAS conference in Budapest, Hungary this year. The most interesting tutorial is the Reinforcement Learning and Beyond tutorial. It has interesting topics from classical reinforcement learning to transfer learning (TL). The three parts caught my attention due to its interesting topics. Here is the URL to this tutorial (Hopefully, it was captured by the team at videolectures).
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