Agreed, it's also a bit topical. Check out Wiering + van Otterlo's "Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-art." Covers many new techniques--I used it as a refer

Agreed, it's also a bit topical. Check out Wiering + van Otterlo's "Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-art." Covers many new techniques--I used it as a reference for a project earlier this year: http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-27644-6 http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligen...