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Imitation in animals and artifacts

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"A Bradford book."Papers presented at a meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 7-9, 1999.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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Complex Adaptive Systems

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301 IMI

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Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 2002

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1 online resource (xv, 607 pages) : illustrations.

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English

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9780262271219

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301

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computer

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online resource

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Machine Learning
Imitation
Learning in animals

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edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv.

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3676.001.0001

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