Emotions and personality have received quite a lot of attention the last few years in research on embodied conversational agents. Attention is also increasingly being paid to matters of social psychology and interpersonal aspects (see [3], for example, and [11], for work of our group). Given the nature of an embodied conversational agent’s main activity: “conversation”, we feel that interperson...

An intelligent communicating agent has both the properties of intelligent agents and communicating agents, which are autonomy, reactivity, proactiveness and sociability. In this paper, we propose a modelbased approach to designing and implementing intelligent communicating agents for multi-agent systems (MAS). As background knowledge for our approach, we first briefly introduce the agent-orient...

In this paper, we present an implementation of a Java-based framework for building mobile agents : MiLog (Mobile intelligent agents using Logic programming). MiLog provides logic programming and Java programming for developing intelligent agents since it helps users to effectively construct intelligent mechanisms. We address how to realize an anytime migration mechanism, a HTTP(Hyper Text Trans...

This paper investigates three levels of reaching actions for intelligent virtual agents: reach by hand, reach by body, and reach by move. ‘Reach by hand’ is discussed as a typical inverse kinematics problem which involves the arm joints. ‘Reach by body’ is examined as a decision-making problem for involved joints. ‘Reach by move’ is investigated as a search problem with a set of rational postul...

Recent developments in Human-Computer interaction (HCI), computer supported co-operative work (CSCW) and a distributed approach to artificial intelligence (DAI) share a common problem: communication. We are moving towards a situation of multiple interacting systems. Some of these systems will be humans, others will be 'intelligent' agents and still others will be 'dumb' devices. Unless we are c...

Abstract Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) may augment military training and mitigate existing limitations in personnel resources. A study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of an embedded rifle marksmanship ITS for Moving Targets (MT-ITS). MT-ITS has two main components: (1) a Smart Sight System that provides perceptual cue help trainees adjust their point aim account target’s sp...

NewsAgent is an intelligent type of agent that has the capability of generating personal newspapers from particular user preferences extracted by observation and feedback. This agent generates personal newspapers using static word analysis for extracting a global classification and case-based reasoning for dynamic subclassification. The agent observes users by an applet with capabilities of det...

An "intelligent agent" is a versatile and adaptive computer system. It performs diverse cognitive and physical behaviors in its efforts to achieve multiple goals in a dynamic, uncertain task environment. In this paper, we address the question: How should plans influence the cognitive and physical behavior of intelligent agents? In contrast to the well-known model of plans as executable programs...

Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...