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IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Strategy evaluation in extensive games with importance sampling
Typically agent evaluation is done through Monte Carlo estimation. However, stochastic agent decisions and stochastic outcomes can make this approach inefficient, requiring many s...
Michael H. Bowling, Michael Johanson, Neil Burch, ...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Symmetric networks foster to evolve desirable turn-taking rules in dispersion games
— Using a game-theoretic model combined with the evolutionary model, we investigate the conditions under which the desirable interaction rules will evolve and sustain in various ...
Akira Namatame, Hiroshi Sato
CONCUR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Winning Regions of Pushdown Parity Games: A Saturation Method
We present a new algorithm for computing the winning region of a parity game played over the configuration graph of a pushdown system. Our method gives the first extension of the...
Matthew Hague, C.-H. Luke Ong
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Matchmaker: Interpersonal Touch in Gaming
Acts of interpersonal touch – a touch shared between two people – are used by couples to communicate in a simple and emotionally intimate way. In this paper, we argue that the ...
Cody Watts, Ehud Sharlin, Peter Woytiuk