The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view,
just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the …

In building autonomous agents with talking faces, agents capable of expressive and
communicative behavior, we consider it important that the agent express his communicative …

The aim of this paper is to show how relevant is a trust model based on beliefs and their
credibility. The approaches to the study of trust are various and very different from each of …

In the era of globalization, concepts such as individualization and personalization become
more and more important in virtual systems. With the goal of creating a more familiar …

The use of automation within high-risk industrial production systems has increased markedly
during the last 50 years. Automatic systems have gained in autonomy and authority …

In this chapter, we propose some reflections on how an embodied animated agent might be
designed so as to adapt its behavior to the cultural context to which it applies. We start from …

This paper presents a centralized mechanism for solving the coordination problem of
personality-based multiagent systems from the point of view of social exchanges. The …

There is increasing interest in the agent community to integrate the concept of emotions and
artificial agents. The spectrum of available solutions reaches from applications and models …

Intelligent agents have successfully solved the train pathing problem on a small portion of
railroad network [Tsen, 1995, Ph. D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA]. As the …

This volume began with a workshop of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence held in 2001. Concerned with embodied agents as cultural objects and subjects …