Learning while setting precedents

Persuasive Precedents

Stories can be a powerful vehicle of persuasion. We typically use stories to link known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using legal case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story about the facts using pre...

Learning Physical Descriptions From Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents

Learning while Teaching Robotics

This paper outlines a mentoring experience in which undergraduate students majoring in Computer Science spent their summer teaching robotics to high school students in Harlem. We describe two programs in which we worked with undergraduates to develop and implement robotics curriculum. Then we report on a valuable and often overlooked piece of the project — the learning experience of the undergr...

On Planning while Learning

This paper introduces a framework for Planning while Learning where an agent is given a goal to achieve in an environment whose behavior is only partially known to the agent. We discuss the tractability of various plan-design processes. We show that for a large natural class of Planning while Learning systems, a plan can be presented and veriied in a reasonable time. However, coming up algorith...

Planning While Learning Operators

This paper describes issues that arise when integrating a planner with a system that learns planning operators incrementally, and our approaches to address these issues. During learning, domain knowledge can be incomplete and incorrect in different ways; therefore the planner must be able to use incomplete domain knowledge. This presents the following challenges for planning: How should the pla...