It is virtually envisioned that in the near future home-service robots will be assisting people in their daily lives. While a wide spectrum of utility of home-service robots has b...
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational mod...
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis L...
—“AWE” is a programmable “Animated Work Environment” supporting everyday human activities, at home, work and school, in an increasingly digital society. AWE features a no...
Keith Evan Green, Ian D. Walker, Leo J. Gugerty, J...
— Robots that can interact naturally with humans require the integration and coordination of many different components with heavy computational demands. We argue that an architec...
To allow for flexibility in software structures (architectures) especially plugins and agents are proposed solutions. While plugins are used to support the conceptual and practica...
Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, B...