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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The senior companion multiagent dialogue system
This article presents a multi-agent dialogue system. We show how a collection of relatively simple agents is able to treat complex dialogue phenomena and deal successfully with di...
Hugo Pinto, Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexie...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Continual collaborative planning for mixed-initiative action and interaction
Multiagent environments are often highly dynamic and only partially observable which makes deliberative action planning computationally hard. In many such environments, however, a...
Michael Brenner
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Negotiating task interruptions with virtual agents for health behavior change
Virtual health counseling agents on mobile devices need to be able to interrupt their users when it is time for them to engage in healthy behaviors, such as scheduled medication t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer, Francisco Cresp...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Achieving efficient and equitable collaboration among selfish agents using spender-signed currency
We study collaboration among selfish agents in the tactical airport planning domain. This can be seen as a social exchange scenario, in which the efforts of performing tasks are t...
Geert Jonker, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Specifying and enforcing norms in artificial institutions
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Stable cooperation in changing environments
This paper addresses the issue of emergence of robust cooperation among self-interested agents interacting in N-player social dilemma games. A series of graphs are created each ex...
Colm O'Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
What should the agent know?: the challenge of capturing human knowledge
Reports of applications that include agent-based models of human behaviour tend to focus on the applications themselves and the success of the modelling exercise. They give little...
Emma Norling
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Do humans identify efficient strategies in structured peer-to-peer systems?
In the last years, distributed coordinator-free systems, e.g., peerto-peer systems (P2P systems), have attracted much interest among researchers and practitioners. In these system...
Stephan Schosser, Klemens Böhm, Bodo Vogt