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Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2024

Mihnea Moldoveanu Open the ORCID record for Mihnea Moldoveanu [Opens in a new window]
Mihnea Moldoveanu*
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Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada mihnea.moldoveanu@rotman.utoronto.ca
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Abstract

I argue for a more complicated but nonetheless computationally feasible and algorithmically intelligible interplay between exploration and exploitation and for admitting into our conceptual toolkit regimes of exploitative exploration and exploratory exploitation that can enhance the novelty and usefulness of the results of either problemistic or serendipitous search.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 47 , 2024 , e108
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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