@InProceedings{BRS93, author = { Margrit Betke and Ronald L. Rivest and Mona Singh }, title = { Piecemeal learning of an unknown environment }, pages = { 277--286 }, doi = { 10.1145/168304.168352 }, acmid = { 168352 }, acm = { 78895 }, booktitle = { Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory }, publisher = { ACM }, editor = { Lenny Pitt }, isbn = { 0-89791-611-5 }, date = { 1993-07 }, OPTyear = { 1993 }, OPTmonth = { July 26--28, }, eventtitle = { COLT'93 }, eventdate = { 1993-07-26/1993-07-28 }, venue = { Santa Cruz, California }, abstract = { We introduce a new learning problem: learning a graph by \emph{piecemeal search}, in which the learner must return every so often to its starting point (for refueling, say). We present two linear-time piecemeal-search algorithms for learning \emph{city-block graphs}: grid graphs with rectangular obstacles. }, }