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Learning from Feedback

The user can communicate with the agent by providing feedback about interesting articles in two ways. The first way is to provide positive or negative feedback for the articles retrieved by the agent (or one of its profiles). Secondly, the user can provide examples of articles that the agent did not retrieve, which is an example of programming by demonstration. In each of these cases, user feedback has two effects. One is that the appropriate profile is modified in response to the feedback. The other is that the fitness of the profile responsible for the article is appropriately modified.



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