Mixed Initiative in Interaction between Software Agents

Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

We have been working during the past several years on techniques for modeling the way that software agents can take and release the initiative while interacting together. We are interested in building multiagent systems composed of software agents that can interact with human users in sophisticated ways which are analogous to human conversations. In this paper, we describe two projects we have worked on: a multiagent approach tbr simulating conversations between software agents, and the Virtual Theater.