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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Parameterizing the winner determination problem for combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions have been studied by the multiagent systems community for some time, since these auctions are an effective mechanism for resource allocation when agents are...
David Loker, Kate Larson
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Constraint-based reasoning and privacy/efficiency tradeoffs in multi-agent problem solving
Because of privacy concerns, agents may not want to reveal information that could be of use in problem solving. As a result, there are potentially important tradeoffs between main...
Richard J. Wallace, Eugene C. Freuder
IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months 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
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Culture-specific communication management for virtual agents
Human interaction depends on several individual factors such as personality, social relations, age or gender. But also the society we live in influences our behaviour. Thus cultur...
Birgit Endraß, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth Andr...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Politeness Effect: Pedagogical Agents and Learning Gains
Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations ha...
Ning Wang, W. Lewis Johnson, Richard E. Mayer, Pao...