ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
We explored the association between users' social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of an agent (also referred to as a virtual human), specifically addressing whether th...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Researchers demand much from their embodied conversational agents (ECAs), requiring them to be both life-like, as well as responsive to events in an interactive setting. We find t...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
For the realistic simulation of embodied agents we need a model of emotion that represents both structural and dynamic aspects of emotional phenomena to serve as background suppor...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Computer agents participate in many collaborative and competitive multiagent domains in which humans make decisions. For computer agents to interact successfully with people in su...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Many multiagent problems comprise subtasks which can be considered as reinforcement learning (RL) problems. In addition to classical temporal difference methods, evolutionary algo...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
In reinforcement learning, least-squares temporal difference methods (e.g., LSTD and LSPI) are effective, data-efficient techniques for policy evaluation and control with linear v...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...