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1 online resource (xv, 607 pages) : illustrations |
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Complex adaptive systems |
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Complex adaptive systems.
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1. The agent-based perspective on imitation / by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv -- 2. The correspondence problem / by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn -- 3. Vocal, social, and self-imitation by bottlenosed dolphins / by Louis M. Herman -- 4. Allospecific referential speech acquisition in grey parrots (psittacus erithacus) : evidence for multiple levels of avial vocal imitation / by Irene M. Pepperberg -- 5. On avian imitation : cognitive and ethological perspectives / by Johannes Fritz and Kirt Kotrschal -- 6. Art imitates life : programming by example as an imitation game / by Henry Lieberman -- 7. Learning to fly / by Claude Sammut, Scott Hurst, Dana Kedzier, and Donald Michie -- 8. Imitation of sequential and hierarchical structure in action : experimental studies with children and chimpanzees / by Andrew Whiten -- 9. Three sources of information in social learning / by Josep Call and Malinda Carpenter -- 10. The mirror system, imitation, and the evolution of language / by Michael A. Arbib -- 11. Imitation : a means to enhance learning of a synthetic protolanguage in autonomous robots / by Aude Billard -- 12. Rethinking the language bottleneck : why don't animals learn to communicate? / by Michael Oliphant |
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13. Imitation of a dual-route process featuring predictive and learning components : a biologically plausible computational model / by John Demiris and Gillian Hayes -- 14. Challenges in building robots that imitate people / by Cynthia Breazeal and Brian Scassellati -- 15. Art imitates life : programming by example as an imitation game / by Henry Lieberman -- 16. Imitation or somthing simpler? modeling simple mechanisms for social information processing / by Jason Noble and Peter M. Todd -- 17. Imitation as a perceptual process / by Robert W. Mitchell -- 18. "Do monkeys ape?" -- ten years after / by Elisabetta Visalberghi and Dorothy Fragaszy -- 19. Transformational and associative theories of imitation / by Cecilia Heyes -- 20. Dimensions of imitative perception-action mediation / by Stefan Vogt -- 21. Goal representations in imitative actions / by Harold Bekkering and Wolfgang Prinz -- 22. Information replication in culture : three modes for the transmission of culture elements through observed action / by Oliver R. Goodenough |
| Summary |
The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans and other animals draws on fields as diverse as animal behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science, comparative psychology, neuroscience, primatology, and linguistics. This volume represents a first step toward integrating research from those studying imitation in humans and other animals, and those studying imitation through the construction of computer software and robots. Imitation is of particular importance in enabling robotic or software agents to share skills without the intervention of a programmer and in the more general context of interaction and collaboration between software agents and humans. Imitation provides a way for the agent -- -whether biological or artificial--to establish a "social relationship" and learn about the demonstrator's actions, in order to include them in its own behavioral repertoire. Building robots and software agents that can imitate other artificial or human agents in an appropriate way involves complex problems of perception, experience, context, and action, solved in nature in various ways by animals that imitate |
| Analysis |
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Artificial Intelligence |
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"A Bradford book." |
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Papers presented at a meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 7-9, 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Imitation -- Congresses
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Learning in animals -- Congresses
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Machine learning -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Imitation
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Learning in animals
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Machine learning
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Leerprocessen.
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Imitatie (gedrag)
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Dieren.
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nehaniv, Chrystopher L., 1963-
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Dautenhahn, Kerstin.
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| ISBN |
9780262271219 |
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0262271214 |
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0585436800 |
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9780585436807 |
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9780262042031 |
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0262042037 |
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0262527758 |
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9780262527750 |
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