intelligent agent Papers

Since their development in the 1980’s, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have experienced a widespread success in such varying areas of education as military training, personal tutoring, and vocational instruction. ITSs are not without limitations, however, and have often proven to be costly and inflexible. Combining these systems with Intelligent Agents (IA), first proposed in the 1990s, is intended to address some of the shortcomings of ITSs; notably the cost of building new learning objects. While... Read more

The paper contributes to the development of the theory of AI-Completeness. The intended goalis to provide a classification of problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence with respect to theirsolvability. We prove Turing Test to be an instance of an AI-Complete problem and further show certainAI applications to be AI-Complete or AI-Hard by utilizing polynomial time reductions. Finally, the papersuggests some directions for future work on the theory of AI-Completeness. Read more

We present a novel approach for creating intelligent conversational agents based on a “schizophrenic” model implemented using the EVA (Evolutionary Virtual Agent) nano-agent architecture. The Ms House experiment developed using this approach is compared with Eliza and the Alice chatterbot. Read more

This paper seeks to investigate current development and applications of these systems worldwide, while focusing on their availability in Canadian libraries. It aims to argue that it is both timely and conceivable for Canadian libraries to consider adopting conversational agents to enhance – not replace – face-to-face human interaction. Potential users include library web site tour guides, automated virtual reference and readers' advisory librarians, and virtual story-tellers. To provide background and justification for this argument,... Read more

We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the ‘middleware’ layer in these systems, which takes care of passing around and maintaining incremental information between the modules of such agents. All implementations are based on the abstract model of incremental dialogue processing proposed by Schlangen and Skantze (2009), and the paper shows what different instantiations of the model can look like given specific requirements and... Read more

When developing cognitive agents capable of interacting with humans, it is often challenging to provide a suitable environment in which agent and user are really co-situated. This paper presents a straightforward approach to use Second Life as a persistent, \near natural\, and socially rich environment for research on autonomous agents in complex surroundings, learning social skills, and how they are perceived by humans. We describe an integration of our conversational agent Max, and his underlying cognitive architecture,... Read more

This paper describes the Evolutionary Virtual Agent (EVA) prototype designed as an interactive entertainment system for a multimedia exhibition. This implementation uses a behavioral engine based on a dynamical subsumption architecture and a 3D animated interface that has been projected onto a physical model. Read more

Intelligent agents – software components designed to perform complex tasks for the user (with or without the presence of the user) – are used in a variety of settings, from instant messaging and web auctions, to ATM network management and air traffic control systems. The technology also has applicability within libraries, adding a level of user-oriented control and flexibility to activities such as digital collection management and virtual reference. The use of intelligent agents to... Read more

Intelligent agents, a vast family of computer applications, automates a number of performed tasks ranging from simple macros in Excel or Word, to the complex systems of artificial intelligence capable of learning during the operation, detect problems and to formulate adequate solutions to it. Electronic agents are software programs performing specific tasks and having the necessary knowledge to executing them. They constitute autonomous and intelligent tools, they can interact with their environment and communicate with other... Read more

For many years, the HCI community has harbored a vision of interacting with intelligent, embodied computer agents. However, the reality of this vision remains elusive. From an interaction design perspective, little is known about how to specifically design an embodied agent to support the task it will perform and the social interactions that will result. This paper presents design research that explores the relationship between the visual features of embodied agents and the tasks they... Read more