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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A virtual laboratory for studying long-term relationships between humans and virtual agents
Longitudinal studies of human-virtual agent interaction are expensive and time consuming to conduct. We present a new concept and tool for conducting such studies—the virtual la...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
User modeling in position auctions: re-considering the GSP and VCG mechanisms
We introduce a study of position auctions, with an explicit modeling of user navigation through ads. We refer to our model as the PPA model, since it is most applicable in the con...
Danny Kuminov, Moshe Tennenholtz
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Towards multi-level modeling of self-assembling intelligent micro-systems
We investigate and model the dynamics of two-dimensional stochastic self-assembly of intelligent micro-systems with minimal requirements in terms of sensing, actuation, and contro...
Grégory Mermoud, Juergen Brugger, Alcherio ...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Team competition
In a team competition, two participating teams have an equal number of players, and each team orders its players linearly based on their strengths. A mechanism then specifies how...
Pingzhong Tang, Yoav Shoham, Fangzhen Lin
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Graph-based methods for the analysis of large-scale multiagent systems
Multiagent systems are often characterized by complex, and sometimes unpredictable interactions amongst their autonomous components. While these systems can provide robust and sca...
Wilbur Peng, William Krueger, Alexander Grushin, P...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Unifying preference and judgment aggregation
The paper proposes a unification of the two main frameworks commonly used for the analysis of collective decisionmaking: the framework of preference aggregation, developed from t...
Davide Grossi
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Real-time expressive gaze animation for virtual humans
Gaze is an extremely important aspect of human face to face interaction. Over the course of an interaction, a single individual’s gaze can perform many different functions, such...
Marcus Thiébaux, Brent Lance, Stacy Marsell...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic protocols for open agent systems
Multi-agent systems where the members are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to a member’s internal state, are often classified as ‘o...
Alexander Artikis
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Reward shaping for valuing communications during multi-agent coordination
Decentralised coordination in multi-agent systems is typically achieved using communication. However, in many cases, communication is expensive to utilise because there is limited...
Simon A. Williamson, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R...