Certain problems in connection with, for example, cooperating agents and distributed systems require reasoning about time which is measured on incomparable or unsynchronized time ...
Intelligent user interfaces often rely on modified applications and detailed application models. Such modifications and models are expensive to build and maintain. We propose to a...
Agents often have preference models that are more complicated than minimizing the expected execution cost. In this paper, we study how they should act in the presence of uncertaint...
Prior research into embodied interface agents has found that users like them and find them engaging. In this paper, we argue that embodiment can serve an even stronger function if...
Justine Cassell, Timothy W. Bickmore, Hannes H&oum...
We consider the problem of browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We describe an interactive relevance feedback agent that a...