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... Autoepistemic Theory An autoepistemic theory isa collection of autoepistemic formulae, which isthe smallest set satifying: Page 20 A closed first-order formula is an autoepistemic formula, If Ais ... class In practice, this ideal state of knowledge is rarely attained, so the Bayes rule provides a goal and a basis for comparison for other classifiers See Also: Bayes Theorem, naïve bayes Bayes' ... without words See Also: feature vector, Machine Learning BAM See: Bidirectional Associative Memory Page 25 Basin of Attraction The basin of attraction B for an attractor A in a (dynamic) state-space...
... A ) isa standard Borel space and A : X → Aisa set-valued map which has a σX - A -measurable selector Ais called the action space ofthe first player and A( x) is called the admissible action ... Montr´ al, 300 Cote S Catherine, H3T 2A7 , Montreal, Canada PART I Repeated and Stochastic Games Information and the Existence of Stationary Markovian Equilibrium Ioannis Karatzas Department of Mathematics ... optimally will take advantage of this additional information, and therefore that a stationary equilibrium need not exist What sort of equilibrium is appropriate for this “high information” model is...