If intelligent virtual agents are to become widely adopted it is vital that they can be designed using the user friendly graphical tools that are used in other areas of graphics. H...
Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with "objective" knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there ha...
We present teleassistance, a two-tiered control structure for robotic manipulation that combines the advantages of autonomy and teleoperation. At the top level, a teleoperator pro...
Mixed-initiative planning is one approach to building an intelligent decision-making environment. A mixedinitiative system shares decision-making responsibility with the user such...
Throughout its history, AI researchers have alternatively seen their mission as producing computer behavior that is indistinguishable from that of humans or as providing computati...