Effective norms, emerging from sustained individual interactions over time, can complement societal rules and significantly enhance performance of individual agents and agent soci...
This paper presents an algorithm for learning the meaning of messages communicated between agents that interact while acting optimally towards a cooperative goal. Our reinforcemen...
Claudia V. Goldman, Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberste...
This paper explores hybrid agents that use a variety of techniques to improve their performance in an environment over time. We considered, specifically, geneticlearning-parentin...
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...
We describe a robot system that autonomously acquires skills through interaction with its environment. The robot learns to sequence the execution of a set of innate controllers to...
George Konidaris, Scott Kuindersma, Roderic A. Gru...