The development of scalable and efficient applications requires the use of appropriate models and software infrastructures. This paper presents a software framework that enables the development of scalable and efficient actorbased applications. Each application can be configured with different implementations of the components that drive the execution of its actors. In particular, the paper des...

Agents have different interests and desires. Agents also hold different beliefs and assumptions. To accomplish tasks jointly, agents need to better convey information between each other and facilitate fair negotiations. In this thesis, we investigate agent dialogue systems developed with the Assumption-Based Argumentation (ABA) framework. In our system, agents represent their beliefs and desire...

In this paper we present an adaptive architecture for interaction and dialogue management in spoken dialogue applications. This architecture is targeted for applications that adapt to the situation and the user. We have implemented the architecture as part of our Jaspis speech application development framework. We also introduce some application issues discovered in applications built on top of...