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As complex societal issues continue to emerge, fostering democratic skills like valuing diverse perspectives and collaborative decision-making is increasingly vital in education. In this paper, we propose a Peer Agent (PA) system designed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kyuwon Kim , Jaeryeong Hwang , Younseo Lee , Jeanhee Lee , Sung-Eun Kim , Hyo-Jeong So

We describe an architecture for spoken dialogue interfaces to semi-autonomous systems that transforms speech signals through successive representations of linguistic, dialogue, and domain knowledge. Each step produces an output, and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manny Rayner , Beth Ann Hockey , Frankie James

Conversational agents are systems with a conversational interface that afford interaction in spoken language. These systems are becoming prevalent and are preferred in various contexts and for many users. Despite their increasing success,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Soodeh Atefi , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Multi-agent systems powered by large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, yet existing automated design approaches seek monolithic solutions that fail to adapt resource allocation based on query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bo Ma , Hang Li , ZeHua Hu , XiaoFan Gui , LuYao Liu , Simon Liu

This paper introduces a multi-agent application system designed to enhance office collaboration efficiency and work quality. The system integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Songtao Sun , Jingyi Li , Yuanfei Dong , Haoguang Liu , Chenxin Xu , Fuyang Li , Qiang Liu

A new approach to software design based on an agent-oriented architecture is presented. Unlike current research, we consider software to be designed and implemented with this methodology in mind. In this approach agents are considered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Babak Hodjat , Christopher J. Savoie , Makoto Amamiya

Multi-agent simulations are versatile tools for exploring interactions among natural and artificial agents, but their development typically demands domain expertise and manual effort. This work introduces the Generative Agents for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis , Vince Trencsenyi

The creation and support of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) has been quite challenging, as features required might not be straight-forward to implement and to integrate in a single application. Furthermore, ECAs as desktop…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Gerard Llorach , Josep Blat

Building an end-to-end conversational agent for multi-domain task-oriented dialogues has been an open challenge for two main reasons. First, tracking dialogue states of multiple domains is non-trivial as the dialogue agent must obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hung Le , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

In spoken dialogue systems, we aim to deploy artificial intelligence to build automated dialogue agents that can converse with humans. Dialogue systems are increasingly being designed to move beyond just imitating conversation and also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Atharv Singh Patlan , Shiven Tripathi , Shubham Korde

User interfaces that adapt their characteristics to those of the user are referred to as adaptive interfaces. We propose Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture (AAOSA) as a new way of designing adaptive interfaces. AAOSA is a new…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Babak Hodjat , Makoto Amamiya

An Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is an intelligent agent that works as the front end of software applications to interact with users through verbal/nonverbal expressions and to provide online assistance without the limits of time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ruturaj Raval

Persona-based dialogue systems aim to generate consistent responses based on historical context and predefined persona. Unlike conventional dialogue generation, the persona-based dialogue needs to consider both dialogue context and persona,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Qiushi Huang , Yu Zhang , Tom Ko , Xubo Liu , Bo Wu , Wenwu Wang , Lilian Tang

Creating personalized and adaptable conversational AI remains a key challenge. This paper introduces a Continuous Learning Conversational AI (CLCA) approach, implemented using A2C reinforcement learning, to move beyond static Large Language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nandakishor M , Anjali M

Conversational agents often encounter ambiguous user requests, requiring an effective clarification to successfully complete tasks. While recent advancements in real-world applications favor multi-agent architectures to manage complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Emre Can Acikgoz , Jinoh Oh , Joo Hyuk Jeon , Jie Hao , Heng Ji , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur , Xiang Li , Chengyuan Ma , Xing Fan

Conversational agents (CAs) represent an emerging research field in health information systems, where there are great potentials in empowering patients with timely information and natural language interfaces. Nevertheless, there have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Thuy-Trinh Nguyen , Kellie Sim , Anthony To Yiu Kuen , Ronald R. O'donnell , Suan Tee Lim , Wenru Wang , Hoang D. Nguyen

Due to privacy concerns, open dialogue datasets for mental health are primarily generated through human or AI synthesis methods. However, the inherent implicit nature of psychological processes, particularly those of clients, poses…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lixiu Wu , Yuanrong Tang , Qisen Pan , Xianyang Zhan , Yucheng Han , Lanxi Xiao , Tianhong Wang , Chen Zhong , Jiangtao Gong

Many studies have applied reinforcement learning to train a dialog policy and show great promise these years. One common approach is to employ a user simulator to obtain a large number of simulated user experiences for reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ryuichi Takanobu , Runze Liang , Minlie Huang

Agent-based simulations, especially those including communication, are complex to model and execute. To help researchers deal with this complexity and to encourage modular and maintainable research software, the Python-based framework mango…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Rico Schrage , Jens Sager , Jan Philipp Hörding , Stefanie Holly

As Artificial Intelligence systems evolve from monolithic models to ecosystems of specialized agents, the need for standardized communication protocols becomes increasingly critical. This paper introduces MOD-X (Modular Open Decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Georgios Ioannides , Christos Constantinou , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Aaron Elkins