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Imitation in Animals and Artifacts - 9780262042031

Un libro in lingua di Nehaniv Chrystopher L. (EDT) Dautenhahn Kerstin (EDT) edito da Mit Pr, 2002

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The effort to explain the imitative abilities of humans and other animals draws onfields as diverse as animal behavior, artificial intelligence, computer science, comparativepsychology, neuroscience, primatology, and linguistics. This volume represents a first step towardintegrating research from those studying imitation in humans and other animals, and those studyingimitation through the construction of computer software and robots.

Imitation isof particular importance in enabling robotic or software agents to share skills without theintervention of a programmer and in the more general context of interaction and collaborationbetween software agents and humans. Imitation provides a way for the agent -- whether biological orartificial -- to establish a "social relationship" and learn about the demonstrator's actions, inorder to include them in its own behavioral repertoire. Building robots and software agents that canimitate other artificial or human agents in an appropriate way involves complex problems ofperception, experience, context, and action, solved in nature in various ways by animals thatimitate.

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