Cobot in LambdaMOO: An adaptive social statistics agent

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 327-354

  Isbell Jr , Charles Lee ^a   Kearns, Michael ^b   Singh, Satinder ^c   Shelton, Christian R ^d   Stone, Peter ^e   Kormann, Dave ^f  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d University of California Riverside   (United States)

^e University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^f AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Believable agents; Chat agents; Game theory; Reinforcement learning; Social modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748432461     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-006-0005-z     Document Type: Article

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