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Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management

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Neil Yorke-Smith,

Shahin Saadati,

Karen L. Myers,

David N. MorleyAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '09: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1

Pages 337 - 344

Published: 10 May 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a personal assistant agent in the realm of task management, and present an extended agent cognition model that features a meta-level layer charged with identifying potentially helpful actions and determining when it is appropriate to perform them. The reasoning that answers these questions draws on a theory of proactivity that describes user desires and a model of helpfulness. Operationally, assistance patterns represent a compiled form of this knowledge, instantiating meta-cognition over the agent's beliefs about its user's activities as well as over world state. We have implemented the resulting generic framework for proactive goal generation and deliberation as part of a personal assistant agent in the desktop domain.

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Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents

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AAMAS '09: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1

May 2009

701 pages

ISBN:9780981738161

General Chairs:
Carles Sierra
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish Research Council (Spain)
,
Cristiano Castelfranchi
ISTC-CNR (Italy)
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Program Chairs:
Keith S. Decker
University of Delaware
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Jaime Simão Sichman
Politecnic School, University of São Paulo (Brazil)

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Drexel University
Wiley-Blackwell
Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research
Whitestein Technologies
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory
The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

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Published: 10 May 2009

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