According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
Interacting agents that interleave planning and execution must reach consensus on their commitments to each other. In domains where agents have varying degrees of interaction and ...
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin
Abstract. Governance means that specifications are enforced dynamically at application runtime. Governance framework is a technique to design and implement an extensible interactio...
We present an extended framework for modelling agent-object interactions in virtual environments. Our framework is based on the concept of Smart Objects and provides agents with p...
Christopher Peters, Simon Dobbyn, Brian MacNamee, ...