Commitments model important aspects of agent interactions, especially those arising in e-business. A small number of patterns of commitments accommodate a variety of realistic int...
We describe a robot system that autonomously acquires skills through interaction with its environment. The robot learns to sequence the execution of a set of innate controllers to...
George Konidaris, Scott Kuindersma, Roderic A. Gru...
Many clustering methods are based on flat descriptions, while data regarding real-world domains include heterogeneous objects related to each other in multiple ways. For instance,...
Grazia Bombini, Nicola Di Mauro, Stefano Ferilli, ...
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
For an ambient intelligent agent to support a human in demanding tasks it is important to be aware of the progress made in a given workflow. It would be possible to interact with t...