Recent research has shown that virtual agents expressing empathic emotions toward users have the potentiality to enhance human-machine interaction. To provide empathic capabilitie...
We address the problem of transferring information learned from experiments to a different environment, in which only passive observations can be collected. We introduce a formal ...
We present QuickSpec, a tool that automatically generates algebraic specifications for sets of pure functions. The tool is based on testing, rather than static analysis or theorem ...
In this paper, we merge speech act theory, emotion theory, and logic. We propose a modal logic that integrates the concepts of belief, goal, ideal and responsibility and that allo...