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Imitation in Animals and Artifacts
K. Dautenhahn and C. L. Nehaniv
The MIT Press
2002
607 pp.
ISBN 0-262-04203-7
L43.50 hardback
Keyword Artificial intelligence
"Imitation in Animals and Artifacts" provides the first inter-disciplinary coverage of imitation, behaviour matching, and observational learning. It combines the research of imitation via the construction of robots and computer software with that of studying imitation in humans and animals. The material presented is based on that given at the Imitation in Animals and Artifacts Symposium, which was organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, and held in...