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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation of individual spontaneous reactive behavior
The context of this work is the search for realism and believability of Virtual Humans. Our contribution to achieve this goal is to enable Virtual Humans (VH) to react to spontane...
Alejandra García-Rojas, Mario Gutiér...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Generalized Adaptive A*
Xiaoxun Sun, Sven Koenig, William Yeoh
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Autonomous geocaching: navigation and goal finding in outdoor domains
This paper describes an autonomous robot system designed to solve the challenging task of geocaching. Geocaching involves locating a goal object in an outdoor environment given on...
James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Ad...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Being a part of the crowd: towards validating VR crowds using presence
Crowd simulation models are currently lacking a commonly accepted validation method. In this paper, we propose level of presence achieved by a human in a virtual environment (VE) ...
Nuria Pelechano, Catherine Stocker, Jan M. Allbeck...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Trackside DEIRA: a dynamic engaging intelligent reporter agent
DEIRA is a virtual agent commenting on virtual horse races in real time. DEIRA analyses the state of the race, acts emotionally and comments about the situation in a believable an...
François L. A. Knoppel, Almer S. Tigelaar, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Interaction-driven Markov games for decentralized multiagent planning under uncertainty
In this paper we propose interaction-driven Markov games (IDMGs), a new model for multiagent decision making under uncertainty. IDMGs aim at describing multiagent decision problem...
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Francisco S. Melo
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Not all agents are equal: scaling up distributed POMDPs for agent networks
Many applications of networks of agents, including mobile sensor networks, unmanned air vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, involve 100s of agents acting collaboratively und...
Janusz Marecki, Tapana Gupta, Pradeep Varakantham,...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling parallel and reactive empathy in virtual agents: an inductive approach
Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify their own affective state, and then respond based on these outcomes through empathetic expression. Virtua...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Ph...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A realistic model of frequency-based multi-robot polyline patrolling
There is growing interest in multi-robot frequency-based patrolling, in which a team of robots optimizes its frequency of point visits, for every point in a target work area. In p...
Yehuda Elmaliach, Asaf Shiloni, Gal A. Kaminka