Culture-specific communication management for virtual agents

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 205-211

  Endrass, Birgit ^a   Rehm, Matthias ^a   André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior simulation; Communication management; Culture; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CELL CULTURE; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOR SIMULATION; COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; SIMULATION AND MODELING; VIRTUAL AGENT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84899868317     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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