Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in interactive narrative-centered virtual environments for education, training, and entertainment. Narrative environments dynamicall...
Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows charac...
Song-Yee Yoon, Robert C. Burke, Bruce Blumberg, Ge...
This work faces the problem of web service selection and composition, discussing the advantages that derive from the inclusion, in a web service declarative description, of the hi...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
Decentralized MDPs provide a powerful formal framework for planning in multi-agent systems, but the complexity of the model limits its usefulness. We study in this paper a class o...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...