[Mike Rosenstein]


Action representation, prediction and concepts
M.T. Rosenstein, P.R. Cohen, M.D. Schmill, and M.S. Atkin. Action representation, prediction and concepts. In Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Robots, Softbots, Immobots: Theories of Action, Planning and Control, 1997.
Abstract: A conceptual framework is a valuable resource for planning by situated agents. In this paper, we discuss the acquisition of such a framework. We take the position that concepts are abstractions of experience that confer a predictive ability for new situations. We also show specific examples which demonstrate the utility of abstract representations of actions, called activity maps, for reasoning about concepts and their entailments. In fact, we make the case that activity maps are concepts themselves. Where appropriate, we draw analogies with related work in nonlinear dynamics.
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See also:
  Continuous categories for a mobile robot
  Symbol grounding with delay coordinates
  Concepts from time series

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