Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

Time-series clustering - A decade review

The World Trade Center (WTC) rescue response provided an unfortunate opportunity to study the human-robot interactions (HRI) during a real unstaged rescue for the first time. A post-hoc analysis was performed on the data collected during the response, which resulted in 17 findings on the impact of the environment and conditions on the HRI: the skills displayed and needed by robots and humans, the details of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task, the social informatics in the USAR domain, and what information is communicated at what time. The results of this work impact the field of robotics by providing a case study for HRI in USAR drawn from an unstaged USAR effort. Eleven recommendations are made based on the findings that impact the robotics, computer science, engineering, psychology, and rescue fields. These recommendations call for group organization and user confidence studies, more research into perceptual and assistive interfaces, and formal models of the state of the robot, state of the world, and information as to what has been observed.

Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center

Extending some Concepts of CBR - Foundations of Case Retrieval Nets.- Diagnosis and Decision Support.- Intelligent Sales Support with CBR.- Textual CBR.- Using Configuration Techniques for Adaptation.- CBR Applied to Planning.- CBR for Design.- CBR for Experimental Software Engineering.- CBR for Tutoring and Help Systems.- CBR in Medicine.- Methodology for Building CBR Applications.- Related Areas.

Case-Based Reasoning Technology

An efficient retrieval of a relatively small number of relevant cases from a huge case base is a crucial subtask of Case-Based Reasoning. In this article, we present Case Retrieval Nets (CRNs), a memory model that has recently been developed for this task. The main idea is to apply a spreading activation process to a net-like case memory in order to retrieve cases being similar to a posed query case. We summarize the basic ideas of CRNs, suggest some useful extensions, and present some initial experimental results which suggest that CRNs can successfully handle case bases larger than considered usually in the CBR community.

Case Retrieval Nets: Basic Ideas and Extensions

The main goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the rapidly
 developing area of software agents serving as a reference point to a large
 body of literature and to present the key concepts of software agent
 technology, especially agent languages, tools and platforms. Special
 attention is paid on significant languages designed and developed in order to
 support implementation of agent-based systems and their applications in
 different domains. Afterwards, in the paper a number of useful and
 practically used tools and platforms that are available and support
 activities or phases of the process of agent-oriented software development
 are presented.

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Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms

The ultimate goal of the RoboCup initiative is stated as follows: by mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup. The authors consider this goal from the perspective of how close we are to it and what has to be done to reach it.

The road to RoboCup 2050

Specific behavior description languages prove to be suitable replacements to native programming language like C++ when the number and complexity of behavior patterns of an agent increases. The XML based Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language (XABSL) also simplifies the process of specifying complex behaviors and supports the design of both very reactive and long term oriented behaviors. XABSL uses hierarchies of behavior modules called options that contain state machines for decision making. In this paper we introduce the architecture behind XABSL, the formalization of that architecture in XML and the software library XabslEngine that runs the formalized behavior on an agent platform. The GermanTeam [9] employed XABSL in the RoboCup Sony Four Legged League competitions in Fukuoka.

Hans-Dieter Burkhard

Papers

Case-Based Reasoning Technology

Case Retrieval Nets: Basic Ideas and Extensions

Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms

The road to RoboCup 2050

Designing Agent Behavior with the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language XABSL