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IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Creating Incentives to Prevent Intentional Execution Failures
—When information or control in a multiagent system is private to the agents, they may misreport this information or refuse to execute an agreed outcome, in order to change the r...
Yingqian Zhang, Mathijs de Weerdt
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Finite State Machines
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (DisPOMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling sequential decision making in teams operating under uncertain...
Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Tasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi...
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Extending Alternating-Offers Bargaining in One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Settings
Automating negotiations in markets where multiple buyers and sellers operate is a scientific challenge of extraordinary importance. One-to-one negotiations are classically studie...
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Intelligent Agent That Autonomously Learns How to Translate
—We describe the design of an autonomous agent that can teach itself how to translate from a foreign language, by first assembling its own training set, then using it to improve...
Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Bilateral Bargaining with One-Sided Two-Type Uncertainty
It is a challenging problem to find agents’ rational strategies in bargaining with incomplete information. In this paper we perform a game theoretic analysis of agents’ ratio...
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Methodologies for Self-Organising Systems: A SPEM Approach
This article summarises five relevant methods for developing self-organising multi-agent systems. It identifies their most promising aspects and provides a description of each o...
Mariachiara Puviani, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, ...
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Attention Manipulation for Naval Tactical Picture Compilation
This paper discusses and evaluates an agent model that is able to manipulate the visual attention of a human, in order to support naval crew. The agent model consists of four subm...
Tibor Bosse, Rianne van Lambalgen, Peter-Paul van ...
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation of the Rungis Wholesale Market: Lessons on the Calibration, Validation and Usage of a Cognitive Agent-Based Simulatio
—We present some methodological lessons and thoughts inferred from a research we are making on a simulation of the Rungis Wholesale Market (in France) using cognitive agents. The...
Philippe Caillou, Corentin Curchod, Tiago Baptista