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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Modeling parallel and reactive empathy in virtual agents: an inductive approach
Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify their own affective state, and then respond based on these outcomes through empathetic expression. Virtua...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Ph...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
On proactivity and maintenance goals
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Simon Duff, James Harland, John Thangarajah
LWA
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Towards Learning User-Adaptive State Models in a Conversational Recommender System
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci
UAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Dyna-Style Planning with Linear Function Approximation and Prioritized Sweeping
We consider the problem of efficiently learning optimal control policies and value functions over large state spaces in an online setting in which estimates must be available afte...
Richard S. Sutton, Csaba Szepesvári, Alborz...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient physics-based planning: sampling search via non-deterministic tactics and skills
Motion planning for mobile agents, such as robots, acting in the physical world is a challenging task, which traditionally concerns safe obstacle avoidance. We are interested in p...
Stefan Zickler, Manuela M. Veloso