Programming by Demonstration has proved to be an interesting research area. Nevertheless, despite many experimental systems, it did not find any field area where it should be used extensively. In this paper, we describe a Computer Aided mechanical Design system which incorporates Programming by Demonstration capabilities, named EBP, for Example-Based Programming in Parametrics. EBP is intended ...

Programming by demonstration seeks to allow people to communicate algorithms easily to computers. The world in which the communication takes place, and the set of actions that can be performed in that world, both influence the efficiency and correctness of the transmitted algorithms, and the extent to which efficiency and correctness can be guaranteed. This paper discusses the effects of differ...

This paper introduces the concept of metaphorical structurer as a way of conciliating user interface development by demonstration and by generation so that advantages of both approaches are exploited together. It basically consists of substituting part or whole of the contents of a preliminary presentation model by a set of pre-defined specifications attached to a presentation and behavior. Thi...

Robot assistants will only reach a mass consumer market when they are easy to use. This applies especially to the way a user programs it’s robot system. The only approach that enables a non expert robot user to teach a system complex tasks is programming by demonstration. This paper explains the basic concepts for mapping typical human actions performed in a household to a robot system: the rec...

Programming by demonstration techniques have been investigated to facilitate and speed up the setup of new robot tasks. Kinesthetic teaching (KT), i.e., teaching by physically guiding a robot in the execution of a motion, has been adopted in industrial scenarios for its ease of use. In the work described here, we analyse and discuss limits and drawbacks of KT and suggest the adoption of a set o...

-Rewriting systems are popular in end-user prcgramming because complex behavior can be described with few or no abstractions or variables. However, rewriting systems have been limited t o manipulating non-rotatable objects on a grid, such as in Agentsheets or Stageeast Creator. Systems that allow free-form movement of objects must use other techniques, such as the sequential programming by demo...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an important instrument to boost the performance of business processes. In this paper, the Product-Based Design (PBD) method is presented that is especially suitable to reengineer processes that support information-intensive products such as bonds, mortgages, and loans. Aside from the treatment of its theoretical properties and the differences with prevai...

Our goal is to make combinatorial problem-solving technology available to users who have no formal training in AI or OR. To achieve this aim, we have built a system, VICSS (Visual Constraint Specification System) that enables users to specify problems graphically. To simplify the specification process, VICSS relles heavily on progra~nming-by-demonstration (PBD) techniques. We believe, however, ...

Programming by demonstration requires detection and analysis of sequential patterns in a user’s input, and the synthesis of an appropriate structural model that can be used for prediction. This paper describes SEQUITUR, a scheme for inducing a structural description of a sequence from a single example. SEQUITUR integrates several different inference techniques: identification of lexical subsequ...