Autonomous mobile robots are considered a valuable technology for search and rescue applications, where an initially unknown environment has to be explored to locate human victims...
Virtual humans offer an exciting and powerful potential for rich interactive experiences. Fully embodied virtual humans are growing in capability, ease, and utility. As a result, t...
Patrick G. Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Grat...
This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, which enables adults and children to engage in conversation with animated characters in a 3D world. In this paper we argue that...
Joakim Gustafson, Johan Boye, Morgan Fredriksson, ...
Temporal difference reinforcement learning algorithms are perfectly suited to autonomous agents because they learn directly from an agent’s experience based on sequential actio...
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multi-agent system...