Opponent Modeling in Automated Negotiation Applied to P2P Energy Trading

Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems composed of multiple autonomous agents with different preferences. Such interactions aim to reach agreements through an iterative process of making offers. With the growth of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy markets due to the development and deployment of a variety of small-scale...

Strategy Configuration and Selection for Automated Negotiation Agents

Negotiation is the art of resolving conflicts of interests by finding outcomes that all parties agree with. Humans negotiate often, as there are many conflicts of interest in everyday life when working with other humans. Computer scientists have build computer agents that are capable of negotiating with each other in an attempt to outperform or...

Politags: Breaking the filter bubble by using human computation techniques to enable diverse personalization

This research is aimed at breaking online political filter bubbles. We present a system that uses artificial intelligence and human computation to automatically collect article metadata on political content and thereby enables diverse personalization on content-serving platforms. This way, exploring alternative viewpoints could become as simple...

What does it have in mind?: Collaborating with guide dogs, backpacks and Objects with Intent

The developments in smart products and ubiquitous digital technology urges us to develop thoughtful design approaches that deal with this newly shaping reality. This report describes an investigation into Objects with Intent, embodied agents in human activity. The aim of this project is to generate more insights in the design approach and...

Introducing distributed networks to designers: Development of an educational software tool and a methodology for its evaluation

Available connectivity in everyday objects has inspired design experts to develop methodologies for designing interactive environments - large-scale environments existing out of multiple embedded devices that interact with a user as if to be a single entity. The computer science community uses ad hoc distributed networks to accommodate scaling...

Creating a Virtual Shopping Platform

Virtual Reality has many more applications next to gaming, to which it is currently associated mostly. Ordina SMART Technologies was looking for a way to combine virtual reality with shopping, to create a Virtual Shopping Platform where users could shop and be immersed using virtual reality. An application had to be designed and implemented from...

All roads lead to ROMA: Design and evaluation of a Robust Online Map-generation Algorithm based on position traces

Keeping maps up to date is quite costly because road geometry changes over time and mapping by professional surveyors is an expensive operation. With the presence of GPS sensors on mobile phones and in most cars today it becomes possible to measure the location of roads with many measurements from sensors of lower accuracy. In this thesis we...

Mobile Real-Time Stress Detection

Prolonged exposure to stress can cause serious mental and physical illnesses. Therefore, it is important that people are aware of stressful situations, so that they can take necessary actions to cope with them. We introduce a mobile system that is able to detect stress in individuals in real-time based on electrocardiogram and electrodermal...

Mapping Elements of Reinforcement Learning to Human Emotions

Considerable overlap exists between emotion and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Emotion influences action selection while RL selects actions based on their anticipated result. Emotions also provide feedback on a situation, reflecting if the situation is desirable or not. The same type of feedback is given in RL based on the results of a state...

Towards Understanding Negotiation Strategies: Analyzing the Dynamics of Strategy Components

With modern computers becoming more powerful, automated negotiation is coming more to the forefront of research. Software agents are able to aid human negotiators, help them achieve better outcomes and even negotiate on their behalf. An active topic in the field of automated negotiation concerns the development of negotiation strategies. While...

A Qualitative Comparative Study between Posh and GOAL for Programming UT2004 Bots

A variety of agent programming languages have been proposed in the literature but only few comparative studies have been performed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these languages. In order to gain a better understanding of the programming features and the use of these features by programmers it is imperative to perform studies on...

A visual tool to elicit preference models; To enable support for interest based negotiations with the Pocket Negotiator

Negotiation is an important aspect of life. Especially interest based multi issue negotiation proved to generate better results for all the parties that are involved. Despite its importance, many people are not effective in negotiation. Therefore Negotiation Support Systems (NSS) are designed to aid users. The Pocket Negotiator (PN) is an...

Evaluating the Quality of Opponent Models in Automated Bilateral Negotiations

Automated negotiation agents are agents that interact in an environment for the settlement of a mutual concern. An important factor influencing the performance of a negotiation agent is how it takes the opponent into account. The main challenge in this aspect, is that opponents typically hide private information to avoid exploitation. In such a...

Guidelines for designing interfaces to connect environments to agent programming languages

Multi-agent environment frameworks have been connected to Agent Programming Languages (APLs) before. These connections are created to combine the computational and graphical power offered by environment frameworks with the reasoning power of agents in APLs. However, only limited reasearch has been done to determine how the interface presented to...

A Multi Party Negotiation Game for Improving Crisis Management Decision Making and Conflict Resolving

This thesis presents a training game intended to train crisis management teams to negotiate collaboratively in order to reach the group goal in the best way possible. The importance of the group goal in comparison to their individual goals is touched upon as well, as are various conflicts that can occur during such a negotiation. The game, which...

Learning the Model Structure of Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Automated Speech Recognition

Improving the performance of Automated Speech Recognition system requires incorporating more knowledge in the model of Automated Speech Recognition system. Information such as the context of the conversation and the characteristics of the speaker can make the task of recognizing speech more accurate. The challenge is how this knowledge can be...

Multi agent-based control architecture in intelligent transportation system with infrastructure-based sensing

Traffic congestion has negative impact in our life. In 2001, the European Commission estimated costs of congestion at around 120 billion Euro. The research of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) becomes interesting since infrastructure expansion in not always feasible. In order to find out the impact of automated vehicle and intelligent...

The iCat as a natural interaction partner:Play Go Fish with a robot.

Rationale Currently, there is an increasing demand for research concerning robots which can interact in a social and natural way with humans. Presently, there is still a gap in knowledge about how socio-cognitive robots with the ability to show intentional behavior can be developed. Research Question The goal of this research is to develop a...