This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
Abstract. This paper will discuss the internal architecture for an agent framework called DECAF (Distributed Environment Centered Agent Framework). DECAF is a software toolkit for ...
Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...