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AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
Stefan Poslad, Phil Buckle, Rob Hadingham
IWAI
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Redesigning the Agents' Decision Machinery
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
Luis Antunes, Helder Coelho
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Plug: Virtual Worlds for Millions of People
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang
BCEC
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...