It is useful for an intelligent software agent to be able to adapt to new demands from an environment. Such adaptation can be viewed as a redesign problem; an agent has some origin...
Due to its important role in dialogue, politeness has been widely studied both from a theoretical point of view and at a practical level in virtual agents. However, few attention ...
Businesses often need to face the problem of providing incentives for employees to work together effectively on projects that develop over time. This paper derives the optimal con...
We introduce a model of mutually attracting agents in an arbitrary network, for which the long term behavior results in the emergence of several clusters. The cluster structure is ...
This paper contributes to the analysis of the question how altruistic behaviour can be in an agent’s own interest. The question is addressed by involving a temporal dimension in ...
Tibor Bosse, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, David We...