PRODIGY: Deliberative Learning

Description

• PRODIGY controls several aspects of its learning capabilities, including:
  • When to learn something - PRODIGY attempts to learn new control rules for any descision for which no control rule exists.
  • What to learn - PRODIGY's EBL module can choose to learn from among several different principles.
  • What to keep - PRODIGY's EBL module uses it's Utility Function to decide whether to keep newly learned items.
  • How to learn - PRODIGY has several different learning methods which it can employ (Apprentice, EBL, Static, Alpine, Derivational Analogy) and it can choose which to use for a particular problem.