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    POMDPs for Assisting Homeless Shelters – Computational and Deployment Challenges

    This paper looks at challenges faced during the ongoing deployment of HEALER, a POMDP based software agent that recommends sequential intervention plans for use by homeless shelters, who organize these interve...

    Amulya Yadav, Hau Chan, Albert Jiang, Eric Rice in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2016)

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    The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-Making of Humans and Computers

    Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the context in which decisions are made af...

    Ya’akov Gal, Barbara Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart Shieber in Modeling and Using Context (2007)

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    Asimovian Multiagents: Applying Laws of Robotics to Teams of Humans and Agents

    In the March 1942 issue of “Astounding Science Fiction”, Isaac Asimov for the first time enumerated his three laws of robotics. Decades later, researchers in agents and multiagent systems have begun to examine th...

    Nathan Schurr, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring in Programming Multi-Agent Systems (2007)

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    Utterance and Objective: Issues in Natural Language Communication

    Communication in natural language requires a combination of language-specific and general common-sense reasoning capabilities, the ability to represent and reason about the beliefs, goals and plans of multiple...

    Barbara Grosz in Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker (1994)