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    Problem restructuring for better decision making in recurring decision situations

    This paper proposes the use of restructuring information about choices to improve the performance of computer agents on recurring sequentially dependent decisions. The intended situations of use for the restru...

    Avshalom Elmalech, David Sarne… in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2015)

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    Determining the value of information for collaborative multi-agent planning

    This paper addresses the problem of computing the value of information in settings in which the people using an autonomous-agent system have access to information not directly available to the system itself. T...

    David Sarne, Barbara J. Grosz in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2013)

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    Towards Collaborative Intelligent Tutors: Automated Recognition of Users’ Strategies

    This paper addresses the problem of inferring students’ strategies when they interact with data-modeling software used for pedagogical purposes. The software enables students to learn about statistical data by...

    Ya’akov Gal, Elif Yamangil, Stuart M. Shieber, Andee Rubin… in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2008)

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    Computing: report leaps geographical barriers but stumbles over gender

    Martha E. Pollack, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Barbara J. Grosz… in Nature (2006)

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    Socially Conscious Decision-Making

    For individually motivated agents to work collaboratively to satisfy shared goals, they must make decisions about actions and intentions that take into account their commitments to group activities. This paper...

    Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2003)

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    Interpreting Information Requests in Context A Collaborative Web Interface for Distance Learning

    We describe the use of theories of agent collaboration and human dialogue processing in providing a principled basis for the design of web interfaces to multimedia information stores. The DIAL system, an imple...

    Charles L. Ortiz, Barbara J. Grosz in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (2002)

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    Getting Computer Systems to Function as Team Players (Abstract)

    As a result of the ubiquity of computer networks, computer systems are increasingly acting as elements in a complex, distributed community of people and systems, rather than operating as solitary devices emplo...

    Barbara J. Grosz in Advances in Artificial Intelligence (2000)

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    The Contexts of Collaboration

    The term “context” originally applied to language and referred to the connections between words and sentences in a discourse. The word “context” comes from the Latin “contextere” meaning “to weave together.” T...

    Barbara J. Grosz in Cognition, Agency and Rationality (1999)

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    The Evolution of Sharedplans

    Rational agents often need to work together. There are jobs that cannot be done by one agent—for example, singing a duet or operating a computer network—and jobs that are more efficiently done by more than one...

    Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus in Foundations of Rational Agency (1999)

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    Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation

    With growing opportunities for individually motivated agents to work collaboratively to satisfy shared goals, it becomes increasingly important to design agents that can make intelligent decisions in the conte...

    David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz… in Cooperative Information Agents III (1999)