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AAAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Building Brains for Rooms: Designing Distributed Software Agents
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent
We describe our development of Cobot, a software agent who lives in LambdaMOO, a popular virtual world frequented by hundreds of users. We present a detailed discussion of the fun...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael J. Kearns, David P...
WOA
2001
14 years 1 months ago
A Knowledge Modeling Tool for Rule-Based Agents
Different approaches to improve business process have been proposed. One of the most common techniques is based on software agents and workflow technology. A software agent can be...
Marco Repetto, Christian Vecchiola, Antonio Boccal...
ECIS
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Overcoming Online Booking Barriers with a Software Agent Approach
Through online self-booking travel sites on the Web, consumers are offered great opportunities for convenient and inexpensive travel bookings. Nevertheless, they face certain prob...
Bill Anckar, Svante Olofsson, Pirkko Walden
UIST
1996
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Adding a Collaborative Agent to Graphical User Interfaces
We have implemented a collaborative agent toolkit called Collagen and used it to build a software agent that collaborates with the user of a direct-manipulation graphical interfac...
Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner
AMET
1998
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Agent-Mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...
Robert H. Guttman, Pattie Maes
EUROPAR
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Support for Personal and Service Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
This paper describes an agent-based architecture that extends personal mobility to ubiquitous environment. A software agent, running on a portable device, leverages the existing se...
Khalil El-Khatib, N. Hadibi, Gregor von Bochmann
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Dialectic Architecture for Computational Autonomy
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
Mark Witkowski, Kostas Stathis
ICALT
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Building Software Agents to Assist Teaching in Distance Learning Environments
This paper reports on the implementation and realization of software agents as teaching assistants in the distance learning environment. The software agent we built is able to ext...
Sheung-On Choy, Sin Chun Ng, Yiu-Chung Tsang
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
BOA: A Cognitive Tactical Picture Compilation Agent
Simulation-based training in complex decision-making can be made more effective by using intelligent software agents to play key roles, such as teammates, opponents and instructor...
Annerieke Heuvelink, Fiemke Both