Design Principles for Learning Agents

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This paper presents several design principles used in the development of the Disciple learning agents. The process of developing such an agent relies on importing ontologies from existing knowledge repositories, and on teaching the agent how to perform various tasks, in a way that resembles how an expert would teach a human apprentice when solving problems in cooperation. Experimental results support the usefulness of the presented principles which may be useful for the development of other agents.