In the first stage of the algorithm, each tutor assigns a copy of its Q-table to each one of its worker agents then the worker agents learn independently for a number of episodes to improve their individual solution (lines 4 21).
(In a subsequent conversation, Mr. Cigale said that my children's sessions were reviewed as a matter of course by one of the 200 or so tutors assigned to review sessions for quality control).
Literacy tutors assigned interview times to people interested in participating or, with agreement, passed on telephone numbers to PE. Literacy tutors recruited focus group participants from their classes.
The district has agreed to finance the two courses, at a cost of $395 each, which Ms. Brett said is far less than the cost of the tutors who were assigned for two hours per course every week at a cost of $50 an hour.
Each tutor was assigned to one group and taught his three, five or eight students in a separate room.
For example, Fig. 4 shows that the hunter agents on sub-grid A have finished hunting all their prey agents, while the hunting is still active in sub-grids B, C and D. The workers assigned to the tutor for sub-grid A should be redistributed to the remaining sub-grids Open image in new window Fig. 4 Partially finished hunting.
The consultant agent incorporates the entire system in its problem space, which it decomposes into sub-problems that are assigned to the tutor and worker agents.
When a tutor finishes learning its sub-problem, the worker agents assigned to that tutor are released to the consultant, who can then reassign the workers to any tutors that are still learning.
But when told they could do it next semester, they signed up for 85 minutes of tutoring — and assigned other students 120 minutes.
The four tutors were randomly assigned to the students in the study groups.
