A multi-expert model for dialogue and behavior control of conversational robots and agents

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 248-256

  Nakano, Mikio ^a   Hasegawa, Yuji ^a   Funakoshi, Kotaro ^a   Takeuchi, Johane ^a   Torii, Toyotaka ^a,c   Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^a   Kanda, Naoyuki ^b,d   Komatani, Kazunori ^b,e   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^b   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

^d HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior and dialogue control; Conversational agent; Conversational robot; Multi expert model; Robot intelligence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; CONVERSATIONAL ROBOT; CONVERSATIONAL SERVICES; DIALOGUE CONTROL; HUMAN INTENTIONS; INTELLIGENCE MODELS; MULTI-EXPERT; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78650834053     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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