In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Abstract. People consider other people who resemble them to be more persuasive. Users may consider embodied conversational agents, or ECAs, to be more persuasive if the agents rese...
Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind K. Dey, Sara B. Kiesl...
This project presents an agent-based simulation model of protest activity. Agents are located in a two dimensional grid and have limited ability to observe the behavior of other a...
The paper presents an approach to reasoning about Web services in a temporal action theory. Web services are described by specifying their interaction protocols in an action theory...
We develop an approach in which we model communication protocols via commitment machines. Commitment machines supply a content to protocol states and actions in terms of the social...