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A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO LEARNING COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR VIA OBSERVATION
Title
A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO LEARNING COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR VIA OBSERVATION.
Creator
Johnson, Cynthia, Gonzalez, Avelino, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This dissertation describes a novel technique to creating a simulated team of agents through observation. Simulated human teamwork can be used for a number of purposes, such as expert examples, automated teammates for training purposes and realistic opponents in games and training simulation. Current teamwork simulations require the team member behaviors be programmed into the simulation, often requiring a great deal of time and effort. None are able to observe a team at work and replicate...
Show moreThis dissertation describes a novel technique to creating a simulated team of agents through observation. Simulated human teamwork can be used for a number of purposes, such as expert examples, automated teammates for training purposes and realistic opponents in games and training simulation. Current teamwork simulations require the team member behaviors be programmed into the simulation, often requiring a great deal of time and effort. None are able to observe a team at work and replicate the teamwork behaviors. Machine learning techniques for learning by observation and learning by demonstration have proven successful at observing behavior of humans or other software agents and creating a behavior function for a single agent. The research described here combines current research in teamwork simulations and learning by observation to effectively train a multi-agent system in effective team behavior. The dissertation describes the background and work by others as well as a detailed description of the learning method. A prototype built to evaluate the developed approach as well as the extensive experimentation conducted is also described.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
CFE0003602, ucf:48869
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003602
EVOLVING MODELS FROM OBSERVED HUMAN PERFORMANCE
Title
EVOLVING MODELS FROM OBSERVED HUMAN PERFORMANCE.
Creator
Fernlund, Hans Karl Gustav, Gonzalez, Avelino J., University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
To create a realistic environment, many simulations require simulated agents with human behavior patterns. Manually creating such agents with realistic behavior is often a tedious and time-consuming task. This dissertation describes a new approach that automatically builds human behavior models for simulated agents by observing human performance. The research described in this dissertation synergistically combines Context-Based Reasoning, a paradigm especially developed to model tactical...
Show moreTo create a realistic environment, many simulations require simulated agents with human behavior patterns. Manually creating such agents with realistic behavior is often a tedious and time-consuming task. This dissertation describes a new approach that automatically builds human behavior models for simulated agents by observing human performance. The research described in this dissertation synergistically combines Context-Based Reasoning, a paradigm especially developed to model tactical human performance within simulated agents, with Genetic Programming, a machine learning algorithm to construct the behavior knowledge in accordance to the paradigm. This synergistic combination of well-documented AI methodologies has resulted in a new algorithm that effectively and automatically builds simulated agents with human behavior. This algorithm was tested extensively with five different simulated agents created by observing the performance of five humans driving an automobile simulator. The agents show not only the ability/capability to automatically learn and generalize the behavior of the human observed, but they also capture some of the personal behavior patterns observed among the five humans. Furthermore, the agents exhibited a performance that was at least as good as agents developed manually by a knowledgeable engineer.
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Date Issued
2004
Identifier
CFE0000013, ucf:46068
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000013