Emotions play an important role in human decision making. This often has a beneficial effect, and so it is desirable to explore whether emotions can also play a role in agent dec...
Fahd Saud Nawwab, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Paul E...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
During face-to-face conversation, the speaker’s head is continually in motion. These movements serve a variety of important communicative functions. Our goal is to develop a mod...
This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploi...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Mich...
Abstract. Negotiation plays a fundamental role in systems composed of multiple autonomous agents. Some negotiations may require a more elaborated dialogue where agents would explai...