When an agent enters in an e-Market for the first time, it has no historical information that can be used to determine the strength of business relationship with participant agen...
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...
In order to support semantic interoperation in open environments, where agents can dynamically join or leave and no prior assumption can be made on the ontologies to align, the di...
Loredana Laera, Ian Blacoe, Valentina A. M. Tamma,...
Although reasoning about what is the case has been the historic focus of logic, reasoning about what should be done is an equally important capacity for an intelligent agent. Reas...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Sylvie Doutre, Paul E. D...