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AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
CP
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Dealing with Incomplete Preferences in Soft Constraint Problems
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, situations with several agents providing the data, or with possibl...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
AAAI
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Structured Parameter Elicitation
The behavior of a complex system often depends on parameters whose values are unknown in advance. To operate effectively, an autonomous agent must actively gather information on t...
Li Ling Ko, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Sylvie C. W. O...
PATAT
2004
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith
AVI
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Identification and validation of cognitive design principles for automated generation of assembly instructions
Designing effective instructions for everyday products is challenging. One reason is that designers lack a set of design principles for producing visually comprehensible and acces...
Julie Heiser, Doantam Phan, Maneesh Agrawala, Barb...