In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or deliberation dialogues. We focus on inquiry dialogues that allow two agents to share knowledg...
Cost-effective engineering and evolution of complex software must involve the different stakeholders concurrently and collaboratively. The hard problem is providing computer suppo...
Three distinct and interacting types of entities: people, software agents and e-markets are considered in this paper. These entities operate within Shaman, a proposed framework fo...
Gregory E. Kersten, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Hsiangchu L...