Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) intends to separate strategic planning from primitive execution. It has been widely successful in solving long-horizon and complex tasks, where flat-RL ...

Yu Cao (advisor), Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell Benyuan Liu (member), Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of ...

A composition of simple web services, each dedicated to performing a specific subtask involved, proves to be a more competitive solution than an equivalent atomic web service for a complex requirement ...

The senior thesis requires a considerable time investment, discipline and focus, and therefore is only undertaken by a few students each year. When considering whether to undertake an honors thesis, a ...

On the 25th of April 2025, M.A. Anisia Katinskaia defends her PhD thesis on Assessing Learner Answers in Computer-Aided Language Learning. The thesis is related to research done in the Department of ...

Graduate students are a vital part of the extensive research conducted in the Faculty of Computer Science. Many of our faculty members are also engaged in industry-related, funded research at the ...