ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Narrative time has an important role to play in Interactive Storytelling (IS) systems. In contrast to prevailing IS approaches which use implicit models of time, in our work we ha...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Integrating culture as a parameter into the behavioral models of virtual characters to simulate cultural differences is becoming more and more popular. But do these differences ...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Commitments provide a flexible means for specifying the business relationships among autonomous and heterogeneous agents, and lead to a natural way of enacting such relationships...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Researchers in the field of multiagent sequential decision making have commonly used the terms “weakly-coupled” and “loosely-coupled” to qualitatively classify problems i...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
We present a novel approach to interaction-oriented programming based on declaratively representing communication protocols. Our approach exhibits the following distinguishing fea...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
There is now considerable evidence in social psychology, economics, and related disciplines that emotion plays an important role in negotiation. For example, humans make greater c...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Autonomy requires robustness. The use of unmanned (autonomous) vehicles is appealing for tasks which are dangerous or dull. However, increased reliance on autonomous robots increa...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Distributed systems can often be modeled as a collection of distributed (system) variables whose values are constrained by a set of constraints. In distributed multi-agent systems...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
Proper scoring rules, particularly when used as the basis for a prediction market, are powerful tools for eliciting and aggregating beliefs about events such as the likely outcome...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
In creating an evacuation simulation for training and planning, realistic agents that reproduce known phenomenon are required. Evacuation simulation in the airport domain requires...