Multi-agent systems for education and interactive entertainment [electronic resource] : design, use and experience / Martin Beer, Maria Fasli, and Debbie Richards, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts (272 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781609600822 (ebook)
- Multiagent systems -- Congresses
- Instructional systems -- Congresses
- Computer science -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
- E-learning platforms
- Intelligent emotional agents in e-learning systems
- Virtual training
- Recommender agents
- Multiagent systems
- Teaching AI and IA
- Complex systems development
- NetLogo
- Multi-user virtual environments and agents
- Agent-based modeling
- Domain trainers
- (Immersive) virtual reality/environment
- Case-based reasoning
- Cognitive, emotion and personality modelling
- Embodied agents
- Game development
- Human computer interaction
- Knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge based reasoning
- Language technology including speech, linguistics, dialogue
- Multi-agent environments and social systems
- Scenario analysis
- Storytelling/narrative engines
- User modelling
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- QA76.76.I58 .M863 2011eb
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
1. MAgICS / Forrest Stonedahl, Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, Uri Wilensky -- 2. An intelligent agents and multi-agent systems course involving NetLogo / Ilias Sakellariou, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou -- 3. Adapting rewards to encourage creativity / F. Grove ... [et al.] -- 4. A Multiagent approach to teaching complex systems development / Simon Lynch, Keerthi Rajendran -- 5. Introducing AI and IA into a non computer science graduate programme / Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Maria Fasli, Petros Kefalas -- 6. Introducing multiagent systems to undergraduates through games and chocolate / Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe -- 7. Survey of educational multi-user virtual environments and agents / Arda Tezcan, Debbie Richards -- 8. A Comparative study of platforms for multi-user virtual environments / Arda Tezcan, Debbie Richards -- 9. Agents with a theory of mind in virtual training / Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Meyer -- 10. Computers can feel too / K. Chatzara, C. Karagiannidis, D. Stamatis -- 11. Scenario authoring by domain trainers / Debbie Richards, Meredith Taylor -- 12. Crafting a personalised agent-oriented mobile E-learning platform for adaptive third level education / Olapeju Ayoola, Eleni Phelan -- 13. How to build up recommender agents, step by step / Josep Lluis de la Rosa ... [et al.].
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"This book presents readers with a rich collection of ideas from researchers who are exploring the complex tradeoffs that must be made in designing agent systems for education and interactive entertainment"--Provided by publisher.
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Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Jan. 13, 2011).