2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
Context-Centric Proactive Information Delivery
Beijing, China
September 20-September 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2101-0
Xiaocong Fan, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
John Yen, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Rui Wang, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Shuang Sun, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Delivering only those information relevant to the needs of teammates is critical for avoiding information overload. Need-driven proactive information delivery has thus been widely investigated in diverse areas spanning from psychology, AI, to Web-based services. CAST, a team-oriented agent architecture, realized proactive information delivery as a built-in agent behavior, which is derived by the capability of anticipating others' information-needs based on a computational shared mental model. However, the first implementation of CAST is limited in managing the dynamic activation and deactivation of teammates' information-needs. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a novel mechanism for organizing and managing the "context" of information-needs, which facilitates information-needs to be activated and deactivated dynamically. We evaluate the proposed approach by comparing its performance with agent teams using only reactive communications (e.g., ask/reply) and with the original CAST agent teams.
Citation:
Xiaocong Fan, John Yen, Rui Wang, Shuang Sun, Richard A. Volz, "Context-Centric Proactive Information Delivery," iat, pp.31-37, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04), 2004