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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The design of a generic framework for integrating ECA components
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like computer generated characters that interact with human users in face-to-face multi-modal conversations. ECA systems are general...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cere...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Controlling deliberation in a Markov decision process-based agent
Meta-level control manages the allocation of limited resources to deliberative actions. This paper discusses efforts in adding meta-level control capabilities to a Markov Decision...
George Alexander, Anita Raja, David J. Musliner
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Semantic matchmaking of web services using model checking
Service matchmaking is the process of finding suitable services given by the providers for the service requests of consumers. Previous approaches to service matchmaking is mostly ...
Akin Günay, Pinar Yolum
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A model of contingent planning for agent programming languages
Yves Lespérance, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Atala...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Autonomous virtual humans and lower animals: from biomechanics to intelligence
The confluence of virtual reality and artificial life, an emerging discipline that spans the computational and biological sciences, has yielded synthetic worlds inhabited by reali...
Demetri Terzopoulos
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Value-based observation compression for DEC-POMDPs
Representing agent policies compactly is essential for improving the scalability of multi-agent planning algorithms. In this paper, we focus on developing a pruning technique that...
Alan Carlin, Shlomo Zilberstein
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The utility of temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning
Nicholas K. Jong, Todd Hester, Peter Stone
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Suspending and resuming tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents designed to work in complex, dynamic environments must respond robustly and flexibly to environmental and circumstantial changes. An agent must be capable of de...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A model of gaze for the purpose of emotional expression in virtual embodied agents
Currently, state of the art virtual agents lack the ability to display emotion as seen in actual humans, or even in hand-animated characters. One reason for the emotional inexpres...
Brent J. Lance, Stacy Marsella
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Switching dynamics of multi-agent learning
This paper presents the dynamics of multi-agent reinforcement learning in multiple state problems. We extend previous work that formally modelled the relation between reinforcemen...
Peter Vrancx, Karl Tuyls, Ronald L. Westra