Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...
The interaction among particles is a vital aspect of Particle Swarm Optimization. As such, it has a strong influence on the swarm’s success. In this study various approaches re...
Abstract. Social psychologists have documented that people attribute a humanlike agency to computers. Work in human motor cognition has identified a related effect known as "i...
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Synchrony is claimed by psychology as a crucial parameter of any social interaction: to give to human a feeling of natural interaction, a feeling of agency [17], an agent must be a...