This paper presents an attempt to synthesize a methodology and environment which has features both of traditional software development methodologies and exploratory programming environments. The environment aids the development of conceptual natural language analyzers, a problem area where neither of these approaches alone adequately supports the construction of modifiable and maintainable syst...

The communication of information is fundamental to healthcare. In pre-history, knowledge and skills were passed from healer to apprentice by talking and example. Early cuneiform writing on clay tablets record some medical techniques and remedies. In more recent times, medical books have documented an accumulating human knowledge. Currently, journals, magazines, books, proceedings and pamphlets ...

The focus of ElectronixTutor is to build an intelligent tutoring system technology for Navy-relevant applications in training. The goal is to have an ITS for Apprentice Technician Training (ATT) courses in electronics for naval trainees who have completed boot camp and are in the process of A-school training under the Navy Educational Training Command and to supplement the human instruction wit...

An apprentice is an able-bodied individual that will interactively assist an expert, and through this interaction, acquire knowledge and skill in the given task domain. A humanoid apprentice should have a useful repertoire of sensory-motor acts that the human can command with spoken language, along with a real-time behavioral sequence acquisition ability. The learned sequences should function a...

In this study we investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are determining factors that were especially emphasized in this investigation. We found that the skill composition of the employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures...

Falls from heights are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among construction workers, especially inexperienced workers and those performing residential construction. This research reports changes in fall prevention behaviors following revision of fall prevention training in a union-based carpenters' apprenticeship program. We used a comprehensive needs assessment to identify gaps in app...

In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the learning target task. We propose to adapt and reuse the mapped source task optimal-policy directly in related domains. We show the optimal policy from a related source task can...