Pitfalls in the modeling of developmental systems

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 435-454

  Shic, Frederick ^a   Scassellati, Brian ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous mental development; Computational modeling; Developmental systems; Metrics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34447301776     PISSN: 02198436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219843607001084     Document Type: Article

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