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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
GECCO
2003
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
15 years 7 months ago
Sexual Selection of Co-operation
Advocates of sexual selection theory have argued that various male traits, such as male co-operative behavior towards females, can evolve through female preference for mating with ...
Muhammad Afzal Upal
GECCO
2006
Springer
181views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Robustness in cooperative coevolution
Though recent analysis of traditional cooperative coevolutionary algorithms (CCEAs) casts doubt on their suitability for static optimization tasks, our experience is that the algo...
R. Paul Wiegand, Mitchell A. Potter
CMOT
1999
105views more  CMOT 1999»
15 years 1 months ago
Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model
We propose a class of actor-oriented statistical models for closed social networks in general, and friendship networks in particular. The models are random utility models develope...
Gerhard G. Van De Bunt, Marijtje A. J. Van Duijn, ...
HIPC
2009
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Impact of early abort mechanisms on lock-based software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism for shared memory accesses. Early abort is one of the important techniques to improve the executio...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong