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IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Behaviosites: Manipulation of Multiagent System Behavior through Parasitic Infection
In this paper we present the Behaviosite Paradigm, a new approach to coordination and control of distributed agents in a multiagent system, inspired by biological parasites with b...
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Global convergence of local agent behaviors
Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system’s overall objective is defined at a global level. However, the agents have only lo...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Saute...
ACMSE
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
BehaviorSim: towards an educational tool for behavior-based agent
A major paradigm of modeling the decision making of autonomous agents is through behavior-based network models. The network consists of distributed behaviors that compete (or coop...
Pavel Lakhtanau, Xiaolin Hu, Fasheng Qiu
IEEEIA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
How Emotional Mechanism Helps Episodic Learning in a Cognitive Agent
In this paper we propose the CTS (Concious Tutoring System) technology, a biologically plausible cognitive agent based on human brain functions.This agent is capable of learning a...
Usef Faghihi, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkamb...