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Ethical and explainable artificial intelligence is an interdisciplinary research area involving computer science, philosophy, logic, the social sciences, etc. For an ethical autonomous system, the ability to justify and explain its decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Beishui Liao , Michael Anderson , Susan Leigh Anderson

In-car Voice Assistants (VAs) play an increasingly critical role in automotive user interface design. However, existing VAs primarily perform simple 'query-answer' tasks, limiting their ability to sustain drivers' long-term attention. In…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yuanchao Li , Lachlan Urquhart , Nihan Karatas , Shun Shao , Hiroshi Ishiguro , Xun Shen

The complexity of psychological principles underscore a significant societal challenge, given the vast social implications of psychological problems. Bridging the gap between understanding these principles and their actual clinical and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tianyu He , Guanghui Fu , Yijing Yu , Fan Wang , Jianqiang Li , Qing Zhao , Changwei Song , Hongzhi Qi , Dan Luo , Huijing Zou , Bing Xiang Yang

The study of autonomous agents has a long tradition in the Multiagent Systems and the Semantic Web communities, with applications ranging from automating business processes to personal assistants. More recently, the Web of Things (WoT),…

This paper presents a mini-review of the current state of research in mobile manipulators with variable levels of autonomy, emphasizing their associated challenges and application environments. The need for mobile manipulators in different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Cesar Alan Contreras , Alireza Rastegarpanah , Rustam Stolkin , Manolis Chiou

Virtual Reality simulators offer a powerful tool for teacher training, yet the integration of AI-powered student avatars presents a critical challenge: determining the optimal level of avatar realism for effective pedagogy. This literature…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Judson Leroy Dean Haynes

Computer use agents automate digital tasks by directly interacting with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on computers and mobile devices, offering significant potential to enhance human productivity by completing an open-ended space of user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Saaket Agashe , Kyle Wong , Vincent Tu , Jiachen Yang , Ang Li , Xin Eric Wang

Agents for computer use (ACUs) are an emerging class of systems capable of executing complex tasks on digital devices -- such as desktops, mobile phones, and web platforms -- given instructions in natural language. These agents can automate…

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents adopt an end-to-end paradigm that maps a screenshot to an action sequence, thereby automating repetitive tasks in virtual environments. However, existing GUI agents are evaluated almost exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chunyi Li , Longfei Li , Zicheng Zhang , Xiaohong Liu , Min Tang , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Agent-based models have emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing ever increasing complexity of information systems. In its initial days in the 1990s when object-oriented modeling was at its peak, an agent was treated as a special kind…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Srinath Srinivasa , Jayati Deshmukh

Agent-based modeling and simulation has evolved as a powerful tool for modeling complex systems, offering insights into emergent behaviors and interactions among diverse agents. Integrating large language models into agent-based modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Chen Gao , Xiaochong Lan , Nian Li , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Zhilun Zhou , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based applications are gaining prominence due to their ability to leverage large language models (LLMs). These systems excel at combining retrieval mechanisms with generative capabilities, resulting in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Rui Yang , Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Chetan Arora , Lisa Vandenhurk , Joey Chua

General world models represent a crucial pathway toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), serving as the cornerstone for various applications ranging from virtual environments to decision-making systems. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zheng Zhu , Xiaofeng Wang , Wangbo Zhao , Chen Min , Bohan Li , Nianchen Deng , Min Dou , Yuqi Wang , Botian Shi , Kai Wang , Chi Zhang , Yang You , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Dawei Zhao , Liang Xiao , Jian Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Guan Huang

Semantic web technologies have shown their effectiveness, especially when it comes to knowledge representation, reasoning, and data integration. However, the original semantic web vision, whereby machine readable web data could be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Sabrina Kirrane

Multimodal models are expected to be a critical component to future advances in artificial intelligence. This field is starting to grow rapidly with a surge of new design elements motivated by the success of foundation models in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sai Munikoti , Ian Stewart , Sameera Horawalavithana , Henry Kvinge , Tegan Emerson , Sandra E Thompson , Karl Pazdernik

A generalist robot should perform effectively across various environments. However, most existing approaches heavily rely on scaling action-annotated data to enhance their capabilities. Consequently, they are often limited to single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qingwen Bu , Yanting Yang , Jisong Cai , Shenyuan Gao , Guanghui Ren , Maoqing Yao , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li

Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) builds upon Generative AI (GenAI). It constitutes the next major step in the evolution of AI with much stronger reasoning and interaction capabilities that enable more autonomous behavior to tackle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Johannes Schneider

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), widely regarded as the fundamental goal of artificial intelligence, represents the realization of cognitive capabilities that enable the handling of general tasks with human-like proficiency.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Bo Yu , Jiangning Wei , Minzhen Hu , Zejie Han , Tianjian Zou , Ye He , Jun Liu

The recent surge in AI agents that autonomously communicate, collaborate with humans and use diverse tools has unlocked promising opportunities in various real-world settings. However, a vital aspect remains underexplored: how agents handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nabeel Seedat , Jiashuo Liu , Mihaela van der Schaar

This paper introduces \textsc{InfantAgent-Next}, a generalist agent capable of interacting with computers in a multimodal manner, encompassing text, images, audio, and video. Unlike existing approaches that either build intricate workflows…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Bin Lei , Weitai Kang , Zijian Zhang , Winson Chen , Xi Xie , Shan Zuo , Mimi Xie , Ali Payani , Mingyi Hong , Yan Yan , Caiwen Ding