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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Efficient multi-agent reinforcement learning through automated supervision
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms suffer from slow convergence and even divergence, especially in large-scale systems. In this work, we develop a supervision fr...
Chongjie Zhang, Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
RIAACT: a robust approach to adjustable autonomy for human-multiagent teams
When human-multiagent teams act in real-time uncertain domains, adjustable autonomy (dynamic transferring of decisions between human and agents) raises three key challenges. First...
Nathan Schurr, Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Robust team-play in highly uncertain environments
Effective teamwork in highly dynamic environments requires a delicate balance between giving agents the autonomy to act and react on their own and restricting that autonomy so tha...
Henry Work, Eric Chown, Tucker Hermans, Jesse Butt...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
The senior companion multiagent dialogue system
This article presents a multi-agent dialogue system. We show how a collection of relatively simple agents is able to treat complex dialogue phenomena and deal successfully with di...
Hugo Pinto, Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexie...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Continual collaborative planning for mixed-initiative action and interaction
Multiagent environments are often highly dynamic and only partially observable which makes deliberative action planning computationally hard. In many such environments, however, a...
Michael Brenner
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Negotiating task interruptions with virtual agents for health behavior change
Virtual health counseling agents on mobile devices need to be able to interrupt their users when it is time for them to engage in healthy behaviors, such as scheduled medication t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Mauer, Francisco Cresp...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Achieving efficient and equitable collaboration among selfish agents using spender-signed currency
We study collaboration among selfish agents in the tactical airport planning domain. This can be seen as a social exchange scenario, in which the efforts of performing tasks are t...
Geert Jonker, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer