Among features often attributed to software agents are autonomy and mobility. Autonomy of e-commerce agents involves adaptability to engage in negotiations governed by mechanisms ...
Recently a new model agent-based e-commerce system was proposed, in which rule-based mechanism representation was combined with lightweight modular mobile agent design. Furthermor...
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
Mobile computing offers the possibility of dramatically expanding the versatility of computers, by bringing them off the desktop and into new and unique contexts. However, this ne...
Jacob Eisenstein, Jean Vanderdonckt, Angel R. Puer...
This paper presents a census of 147 virtual agents, by examining and reporting on their physical and demographical characteristics. The study shows that the vast majority of agent...