An Architecture and Language for the Integrated Learning of Demonstrations

POIROT is an integration framework and reasoning control system that combines the products of a variety of machine learning mechanisms in order to learn and perform complex web services workflows, given a single demonstration example. POIROT’s extensible multistrategy learning approach to developing workflow knowledge is organized around a central hypothesis blackboard and representation language for sharing proposed task model generalizations. It learns hierarchical task models from semantic traces of usergenerated service transaction sequences. POIROT’s learners or hypothesis formers develop, as testable hypotheses, generalizations of these workflow traces by inferring task order dependencies, user goals, and the decision criteria for selecting or prioritizing subtasks and service parameters. Hypothesis evaluators, guided by POIROT’s meta-control component, plan and execute experiments to confirm or disconfirm hypotheses extracted from these learning products. Hypotheses and analyses of hypotheses are represented on the blackboard in the language LTML, which builds on both OWL-S and PDDL.