Abstract. Autonomous agents are systems situated in dynamic environments. They pursue goals and satisfy their needs by responding to external events from the environment. In these ...
hey generalize these factors to the abstract concepts of ability, integrity, and benevolence. This model does not use probabilistic decision theory. Other SCM trust factors have be...
Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...
Document management inside an organization is a complex and broadly scoped problem. This paper approaches the technical and social issues of Intranet document management by develop...
Achieving effective cooperation in a multi-agent system is a difficult problem for a number of reasons such as limited and possiblyout-datedviews of activitiesof other agents and ...
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
We discuss the tradeo s involved in control of complex articulated agents, and present three implemented controllers for a complex task: a physically-based humanoid torso dancing ...
Maja J. Mataric, Victor B. Zordan, Matthew M. Will...
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...