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A plug-in architecture for generating collaborative agent responses

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Andrew Garland,

Jeff RickelAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2

Pages 782 - 789

https://doi.org/10.1145/544862.544924

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

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We describe an implemented architecture for programming the responses of collaborative interface agents out of easily composable and reusable plug-in components, and discuss the underlying theoretical and practical issues. The power of the architecture comes primarily from a rich representation of collaborative discourse state, which includes a focus stack and plan tree. The architecture also provides a useful separation between the principles and preferences underlying an agent's behavior. We illustrate the use of plug-ins in a complex tutoring agent, which includes plug-ins that diagnose incorrect actions and explain why a step needs to be done. Plug-ins are part of the COLLAGEN agent-building middleware, which has been used by a number of researchers in addition to its developers.

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A plug-in architecture for generating collaborative agent responses
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AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2

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DOI:10.1145/544862

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University of Minnesota, USA
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Kyoto University, Japan
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CNR and Università di Siena, Italy
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University of Southern California, USA

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