Interactive Task Learning
Interactive Task Learning

Author: Kevin A. Gluck

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-08-16

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0262349434

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Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of new tasks through natural interaction is an ongoing challenge. Advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics are leading us to future systems with human-like capabilities. A huge gap exists, however, between the highly specialized niche capabilities of current machine learning systems and the generality, flexibility, and in situ robustness of human instruction and learning. Drawing on expertise from multiple disciplines, this Strüngmann Forum Report explores how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. The contributors consider functional knowledge requirements, the ontology of interactive task learning, and the representation of task knowledge at multiple levels of abstraction. They explore natural forms of interactions among humans as well as the use of interaction to teach robots and software agents new tasks in complex, dynamic environments. They discuss research challenges and opportunities, including ethical considerations, and make proposals to further understanding of interactive task learning and create new capabilities in assistive robotics, healthcare, education, training, and gaming. Contributors Tony Belpaeme, Katrien Beuls, Maya Cakmak, Joyce Y. Chai, Franklin Chang, Ropafadzo Denga, Marc Destefano, Mark d'Inverno, Kenneth D. Forbus, Simon Garrod, Kevin A. Gluck, Wayne D. Gray, James Kirk, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Parisa Kordjamshidi, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere, Stephen C. Levinson, Elena Lieven, John K. Lindstedt, Aaron Mininger, Tom Mitchell, Shiwali Mohan, Ana Paiva, Katerina Pastra, Peter Pirolli, Roussell Rahman, Charles Rich, Katharina J. Rohlfing, Paul S. Rosenbloom, Nele Russwinkel, Dario D. Salvucci, Matthew-Donald D. Sangster, Matthias Scheutz, Julie A. Shah, Candace L. Sidner, Catherine Sibert, Michael Spranger, Luc Steels, Suzanne Stevenson, Terrence C. Stewart, Arthur Still, Andrea Stocco, Niels Taatgen, Andrea L. Thomaz, J. Gregory Trafton, Han L. J. van der Maas, Paul Van Eecke, Kurt VanLehn, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Janet Wiles, Robert E. Wray III, Matthew Yee-King

The New Foreign Policy
The New Foreign Policy

Author: Laura Neack

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1442220082

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Integrating theory and case studies, this cogent text explores the processes and factors that shape foreign policy. In her thoroughly revised and updated edition, Laura Neack considers both old and new lessons, drawing on a rich array of real foreign policy choices and outcomes. In new cases, Neack explores decision making in the Eurozone crisis, increasing nationalism in Germany and Japan and what seems to be growing bellicosity among Canadians, Obama’s grand strategy and the responses of rising powers Brazil and India, and the Egyptian youth revolution. Following a levels-of-analysis organization, the author considers all elements that influence foreign policy, including the role of leaders, bargaining, national image, political culture, public opinion, the media, and nonstate actors.

Fascist Interactions
Fascist Interactions

Author: David D. Roberts

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1785331302

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Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus on the relationships among different fascist formations before 1945. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this rigorous volume charts a historiographical path that transcends rigid distinctions while still developing meaningful criteria of differentiation. Even as we take fascism seriously as a political phenomenon, such an approach allows us to better understand its distinctive contradictions and historical variations.

Powerful Interactions
Powerful Interactions

Author: Amy Laura Dombro

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781938113727

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Make your everyday interactions with children intentional and purposeful with these steps: Be Present, Connect, and Extend Learning.

Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups
Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups

Author: Kenneth H. Rubin

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2011-01-31

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 1609182227

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This comprehensive, authoritative handbook covers the breadth of theories, methods, and empirically based findings on the ways in which children and adolescents contribute to one another's development. Leading researchers review what is known about the dynamics of peer interactions and relationships from infancy through adolescence. Topics include methods of assessing friendship and peer networks; early romantic relationships; individual differences and contextual factors in children's social and emotional competencies and behaviors; group dynamics; and the impact of peer relations on achievement, social adaptation, and mental health. Salient issues in intervention and prevention are also addressed.

Interactions with Search Systems
Interactions with Search Systems

Author: Ryen W. White

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1316565122

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Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of information returned by these systems is a key part of decision making and action in a broad range of settings. Advances in data availability coupled with new interaction paradigms, and mobile and cloud computing capabilities, have created a broad range of new opportunities for information access and use. In this comprehensive book for professionals, researchers, and students involved in search system design and evaluation, search expert Ryen White discusses how search systems can capitalize on new capabilities and how next-generation systems must support higher order search activities such as task completion, learning, and decision making. He outlines the implications of these changes for the evolution of search evaluation, as well as challenges that extend beyond search systems in areas such as privacy and societal benefit.

Non-covalent Interactions in the Synthesis and Design of New Compounds
Non-covalent Interactions in the Synthesis and Design of New Compounds

Author: Abel M. Maharramov

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1119113857

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This book aims to overview the role of non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen and halogen bonding, π-π, π-anion and electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic effects and van der Waals forces in the synthesis of organic and inorganic compounds, as well as in design of new crystals and function materials. The proposed book should allow to combine, in a systematic way, recent advances on the application of non-covalent interactions in synthesis and design of new compounds and functional materials with significance in Inorganic, Organic, Coordination, Organometallic, Pharmaceutical, Biological and Material Chemistries. Therefore, it should present a multi- and interdisciplinary character assuring a rather broad scope. We believe it will be of interest to a wide range of academic and research staff concerning the synthesis of new compounds, catalysis and materials. Each chapter will be written by authors who are well known experts in their respective fields.

New Interactions
New Interactions

Author: David Waugh

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 2001-12

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780748760763

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This series uses an enquiry based approach to geography through the inclusion of enquiry sections at the end of each book. It includes updated text and statistics ensuring students the most topical, contemporary information. It aims to help students aquire full understanding of each topic through the intergration of a key question and summary answer on each double page spread. The texts are suitable for students of differing abilities and working at different levels.

Interactions with Search Systems
Interactions with Search Systems

Author: Ryen W. White

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1107034221

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This book describes advances in technology, data availability, and searcher expectations around next-generation search engines.

Fundamental Interactions
Fundamental Interactions

Author: A. Astbury

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 9812772545

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This proceedings volume contains the latest developments in particle physics in collider experiments. The contributions cover new results such as the production of quark-gluon plasma in the heavy-ion collider, the new techniques for precision measurement at low energies, and the status of neutrino physics at various laboratories including the new facilities that are at the planning stage. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures (1,408 KB). Contents: Making Precision Measurements at Hadron Colliders: Two Lectures (H J Frisch); Evidence for a QuarkOCoGluon Plasma at RHC (J Harris); Neutrino Physics: A Selective Overview (S Oser); Low-Energy Tests of the Standard Model (M Pospelov); Leptonic B Decays (M-C Chang); Cosmic Neutrinos Beyond the Standard Model (U Harbach); Proton Structure from HERA (K Nagano); New Phenomena Searches at CDF (A Soha); Electroweak Results at LEP2 (P Spagnolo); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in particle and nuclear physics."