References and Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Amy Greenwald for all of her tireless help throughout this project and to Hilary Mason for her help with deciphering Q-learning and with this paper.

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[4] R.S. Sutton, and A.G. Barto. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999, pp.148-150.