While technology has been often held responsible for engendering mistrust, little has been done to establish the role of information technology in creating trust in organizations. This paper explores the phenomena of trust-building through Intelligent Agents. Beginning with an overview on the meanings and measures of trust, the effects of trust in a variety of settings are examined. Further, a ...

The project described by the present paper aims at building a bridge between Intelligent Query Interfaces and Natural Language Generation technologies. The idea is to have a query interface enabling the users to access heterogeneous data sources by means of an integrated ontology. This paper shows how we are redesigning our intelligent query interface by rendering the logic-based queries in nat...

An emotionally intelligent tutoring system should be able to provide feedback to students, taking into account relevant aspects of the mental state of the student. Facial expressions, put in context, might provide some cues with respect to this state. We discuss the analysis of the facial expression displayed by students interacting with an Intelligent Tutoring System and our attempts to relate...

Intelligent autonomous agents is an emerging technology that excels the applications, having complex distributed nature and requiring communication of complex and diverse forms of information, when deployed in multi-agent system setting. As healthcare is a complex domain and distributed in nature, scientist have started to deploy intelligent agents and multi-agent technologies indifferent healt...

Development of the integrated expert systems with the task-oriented methodology and the problems of the intellectualization of AT-TECHNOLOGY workbench are reviewed. Intelligent planning methods applied for tutoring IES development processes are described with usage of the intelligent planner, reusable components, typical design procedures, and another intelligent program environment components....

In the study of intelligent space oriented to home service robot, an important technology is how to construct an communication network which has the characters of high reliability and easy building. In this paper, based on the characteristics of ZigBee protocol, ZigBee technology is used to construct a wireless sensor and actor network. Several intelligent services based on ZigBee wireless sens...

The Intelligent Space is an area (room, public space, etc.) that has networked distributed sensors, which can be used for observing and gathering information from the space. The main objective for the introduction of Intelligent Space is to provide services to humans inside the space. These services can be either informational, such as the ones provided by displays, or physical. In order to be ...

In building intelligent tutoring systems, it is critical to be able to understand and diagnose student responses in interactive problem solving. However, building this understanding into a computer-based intelligent tutor is a time-intensive process usually conducted by subject experts. Much of this time is spent in building production rules that model all the ways a student might solve a probl...

In this paper, we describe a new application domain for intelligent autonomous systems – Intelligent Buildings (IB). In doing so we present a novel approach to the implementation of IB based on a hierarchical fuzzy genetic multi embeddedagent architecture comprising a low-level behaviour based reactive layer whose outputs are co-ordinated in a fuzzy way according to deliberative plans. The fuzz...

Non-Player-Characters (NPCs), as found in computer games, can be modelled as intelligent systems, which serve to improve the interactivity and playability of the games. Although reinforcement learning (RL) has been a promising approach to creating the behaviour models of non-player characters (NPC), an initial stage of exploration and low performance is typically required. On the other hand, im...