In many settings, agents need to identify competent partners to assist them in accomplishing tasks. Direct experience may not provide sufficient data to learn the competence of ot...
We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
In this paper, we proposed a new scheme to generate photograph slide show with incidental music based on the content of the photographs and music. Unlike existing photograph slide...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
Graphical virtual worlds are increasingly significant sites of collaborative interaction. Many argue that the simulation of the everyday environment makes them particularly effect...