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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Dora the Explorer: a motivated robot
Dora the Explorer is a mobile robot with a sense of curiosity and a drive to explore its world. Given an incomplete tour of an indoor environment, Dora is driven by internal motiv...
Nick Hawes, Marc Hanheide, Kristoffer Sjö&oum...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling collision avoidance behavior for virtual humans
In this paper, we present a new trajectory planning algorithm for virtual humans. Our approach focuses on implicit cooperation between multiple virtual agents in order to share th...
Stephen J. Guy, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An effective personal mobile robot agent through symbiotic human-robot interaction
Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile ro...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Joydeep Biswas, Manuela M. Ve...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Self-organization for coordinating decentralized reinforcement learning
Decentralized reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a number of distributed applications. However, one of the main challenges faced by DRL is its convergence. Previous ...
Chongjie Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Sherief Abdallah
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Stackelberg vs. Nash in security games: interchangeability, equivalence, and uniqueness
There has been significant recent interest in game theoretic approaches to security, with much of the recent research focused on utilizing the leader-follower Stackelberg game mod...
Zhengyu Yin, Dmytro Korzhyk, Christopher Kiekintve...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A social-network defence against whitewashing
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, W. Marco Schorlemmer, ...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An architecture for modular distributed simulation with agent-based models
Agent-based simulations are an increasingly popular means of exploring and understanding complex social systems. In order to be useful, these simulations must capture a range of a...
David Scerri, Alexis Drogoul, Sarah L. Hickmott, L...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
When do markets with simple agents fail?
We consider (prediction) markets where myopic agents sequentially interact with an automated market maker. We show a broad negative result: by varying the order of participation, ...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm