A LOGIC PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK FOR LEARNING BY IMITATION

Grazia Bombini, Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa M. A. Basile, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito

2009

Abstract

Humans use imitation as a mechanism for acquiring knowledge, i.e. they use instructions and/or demonstrations provided by other humans. In this paper we propose a logic programming framework for learning from imitation in order to make an agent able to learn from relational demonstrations. In particular, demonstrations are received in incremental way and used as training examples while the agent interacts in a stochastic environment. This logical framework allows to represent domain specific knowledge as well as to compactly and declaratively represent complex relational processes. The framework has been implemented and validated with experiments in simulated agent domains.

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Bombini G., Di Mauro N., M. A. Basile T., Ferilli S. and Esposito F. (2009). A LOGIC PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK FOR LEARNING BY IMITATION . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-85-2, pages 218-223. DOI: 10.5220/0002007502180223


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Grazia Bombini and Nicola Di Mauro and Teresa M. A. Basile and Stefano Ferilli and Floriana Esposito},
title={A LOGIC PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK FOR LEARNING BY IMITATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={218-223},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002007502180223},
isbn={978-989-8111-85-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A LOGIC PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK FOR LEARNING BY IMITATION
SN - 978-989-8111-85-2
AU - Bombini G.
AU - Di Mauro N.
AU - M. A. Basile T.
AU - Ferilli S.
AU - Esposito F.
PY - 2009
SP - 218
EP - 223
DO - 10.5220/0002007502180223