Software engineers continually strive to develop tools and techniques to manage the complexity that is inherent in software systems. In this article, we argue that intelligent agen...
Previous work on task scheduling mechanisms assumed that the agent’s goal is to maximize its own profit without considering the effect of its strategy on the other agents’ pr...
This chapter presents a generic internal reward system that drives an agent to increase the complexity of its behavior. This reward system does not reinforce a predefined task. It...
Abstract--There has been growing interest in creating intelligent agents in virtual worlds that do not follow fixed scripts predefined by the developers, but react accordingly base...
Highly believable anthropomorphic agents endanger electronic consumers. Because of concerning tendencies in human-agent interaction arising from agents’ anthropomorphic qualitie...