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Takanori Komatsu (February 1st 2010). Comparison an On-screen Agent with a Robotic Agent in an Everyday Interaction Style: How to Make Users React Toward an On-screen Agent as if They are Reacting Toward a Robotic Agent, Human-Robot Interaction, Daisuke Chugo, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/8133. 

Richard Kelley, Alireza Tavakkoli, Christopher King, Monica Nicolescu and Mircea Nicolescu (February 1st 2010). Understanding Activities and Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Daisuke Chugo, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/8127.

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Employing Models of Human Social Motor Behavior for Artifical Agent Trainers

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AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as the merging of three respected scientific meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally-respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

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AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as the merging of three respected scientific meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). 

We present a framework for verifying strategic behaviour in an unbounded multi-agent system. We introduce a novel probabilistic semantics for parameterised multi-agent systems and define the corresponding verification problem against two probabilistic variants of alternating-time temporal logic. We define a verification procedure using an abstract model construction. We show that the procedure is complete for one variant of our specification language, and partial for the other. We present an implementation and report experimental results. 


Parameterised Verification of Strategic Properties in Probabilistic Multi-Agent Systems

In computational social choice, shift bribery is the procedure of paying voters to shift the briber’s preferred candidate forward in their preferences so as to make this candidate an election winner; the more general swap bribery procedure also allows one to pay voters to swap other candidates in their preferences. The complexity of swap and shift bribery is well-understood for many voting rules; typically, finding a minimum-cost bribery is computationally hard. We have studied swap and shift bribery in the setting where voters’ preferences are known to be single-peaked or single-crossing. We obtain polynomial-time algorithms for several variants of these problems for classic voting rules, such as Plurality, Borda and Condorcet-consistent rules. In this talk we present a polynomial time algorithm for shift bribery in the setting where voters’ preferences are single-peaked. 
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Algorithms for Swap and Shift Bribery in Structured Elections

Redistribution mechanisms have been proposed for more efficient resource allocation but not for profit. We consider redistribution mechanism design in a setting where participants are connected and the resource owner is only connected to some of them. In this setting, to make the resource allocation more efficient, the resource owner has to inform the others who are not her neighbours, but her neighbours do not want more participants to compete with them. Hence, the goal is to design a redistribution mechanism such that participants are incentivized to invite more participants and the resource owner does not earn or lose much money from the allocation. In this presentation, I will first show that existing redistribution mechanisms cannot be directly applied in the network setting. Then I will introduce a novel network-based redistribution mechanism such that all participants on the network are invited, the allocation is more efficient and the resource owner has no deficit.


Redistribution Mechanism on Networks

When planning for multi-robot navigation tasks under uncertainty, the presence of multiple robots in the same part of the environment simultaneously can have an adverse effect on navigation performance. We refer to this effect as congestion. Existing solutions fail to model congestion at planning time, which leads to inefficient behaviour. In this presentation, I will detail how to probabilistically model congestion, presenting a structure called the probabilistic reservation table that summarises the plans of robots using continuous-time Markov chains. I will then show how this structure can be used for planning by outlining an approach that, for each robot, sequentially builds and solves a Markov decision process where the transition probabilities are obtained by querying the probabilistic reservation table.


Multi-Robot Planning Under Uncertainty with Congestion-Aware Models

Sparse reward problems present a challenge for reinforcement learning (RL) agents. Previous work has shown that choosing start states according to a curriculum can significantly improve the learning performance. We observe that many existing curriculum generation algorithms rely on two key components: Performance measure estimation and a start selection policy. Therefore, we propose a unifying framework for performance-based start state curricula in RL, which allows to analyze and compare the performance influence of the two key components. Furthermore, a new start state selection policy using spatial performance measure gradients is introduced. We conduct extensive empirical evaluations to compare performance-based start state curricula and investigate the influence of performance measure model choice and estimation. Benchmarking on difficult robotic navigation tasks and a high-dimensional robotic manipulation task, we demonstrate state-of-the-art performance of our novel spatial gradient curriculum.

A Performance-Based Start State Curriculum Framework for Reinforcement Learning

By a combination of well-known results in judgment aggregation, it is essentially impossible to design an aggregation rule that simultaneously satisfies two crucial requirements: to always return an outcome that is logically consistent, and to be immune to strategic manipulation. To address this dilemma, we put forward a novel notion of strategyproofness, which requires immunity to strategic manipulation only in certain well-defined situations---namely when either the truthful profile of individual judgments or the profile a would-be manipulator is trying to reach are majority-consistent. We argue that this constitutes an attractive compromise for aggregation rules one may want to use in practice, and we prove that several important rules are strategyproof in this sense. This includes, in particular, all rules belonging to the family of additive majority rules, such as the Kemeny rule and the Slater rule.


Majority-Strategyproofness in Judgment Aggregation

We consider a requester who acquires a set of data (e.g. images) that is not owned by one party. In order to collect as many data as possible, crowdsourcing mechanisms have been widely used to seek help from the crowd. However, existing mechanisms rely on third-party platforms, and the workers from these platforms are not necessarily helpful and redundant data are also not properly handled. To combat this problem, we propose a novel crowdsourcing mechanism based on social networks, where the rewards of the workers are calculated by information entropy and a modified Shapley value. This mechanism incentivizes the workers from the network to not only provide all data they have but also further invite their neighbours to offer more data. Eventually, the mechanism is able to acquire all data from all workers on the network and the requester’s cost is no more than the value of the data acquired. The experiments show that our mechanism outperforms traditional crowdsourcing mechanisms.


Collaborative Data Acquisition

Detection of anomalies and faults is a key element for long-term robot autonomy, because, together with subsequent diagnosis and recovery, allows to reach the required levels of robustness and persistency. In this paper, we propose an approach for detecting anomalous behaviors in autonomous robots starting from data collected during their routine operations. The main idea is to model the nominal (expected) behavior of a robot system using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and to evaluate how far the observed behavior is from the nominal one using variants of the Hellinger distance adopted for our purposes. We present a method for online anomaly detection that computes the Hellinger distance between the probability distribution of observations made in a sliding window and the corresponding nominal emission probability distribution. We also present a method for offline anomaly detection that computes a variant of the Hellinger distance between two HMMs representing nominal and observed behaviors. The use of the Hellinger distance positively impacts on both detection performance and interpretability of detected anomalies, as shown by results of experiments performed in two real-world application domains, namely, water monitoring with aquatic drones and socially assistive robots for elders living at home. In particular, our approach improves by 6% the area under the ROC curve of standard online anomaly detection methods. The capabilities of our offline method to discriminate anomalous behaviors in real-world applications are statistically proved.


Optimal Swarm Strategy for Dynamic Target Search and Tracking

In the literature we can find many kinds of modular robot that can build a wide variety of structures. In general, finding an assembly order to reach the final configuration, while respecting the insertion constraints of each kind of modular robot is a difficult process that requires system-specific tuning. 
In this article, we introduce a generic assembly planner by constrained disassembly (GAPCoD) which works with all kinds of modular robots. It outputs a directed acyclic graph where vertices are modules needing to be placed before his child nodes. This graph is obtained through the disassembly of the desired structure submitted to user chosen constraints. We detail the compiler as well as the way to choose constraints and their influence on performance. The robots embed simple path planning algorithm to reach the destination and act as decentralized agents.
Examples are provided to show the possibilities that the compiler offers with two very different robot systems and constraints.

GAPCoD: A Generic Assembly Planner by Constrained Disassembly

Over the course of a day, people often attend many appointments, like meetings or doctor’s appointments, with time and location constraints, as well as perform other tasks like stopping by the grocery store with only location constraints. Optimally scheduling the day’s agenda typically requires a high cognitive load, where people reason about all their constraints at once. An agent that aids a person in scheduling the day’s agenda can potentially reduce the stress associated with scheduling but must be able to 1) perform fast updates and 2) produce new agendas that can be readily understood by the people they are helping. In order to understand how people reason about agenda changes, we first performed a study where participants are asked to perform a series of scheduling tasks and captured their update strategy both subjectively (self-reporting) and objectively (by tracking their reasoning). Our results that show that people use spatial cues and meeting time information to reduce the rescheduling task to a more reasonable size. We then present a novel heuristic for adding tasks to agendas that targets rescheduling to clusters of appointments that are spatio-temporally near the new task. We show that this heuristic approach always finds the optimal solution, while greatly reducing rescheduling time, and performs rescheduling in a way that is similar to our participants’ strategies.

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