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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...