@conference {18920,
	title = {Synthesis of strategies from interaction traces},
	series = {AAMAS {\textquoteright}08},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008///},
	pages = {855 - 862},
	publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
	organization = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
	address = {Richland, SC},
	abstract = {We describe how to take a set of interaction traces produced by different pairs of players in a two-player repeated game, and combine them into a composite strategy. We provide an algorithm that, in polynomial time, can generate the best such composite strategy. We describe how to incorporate the composite strategy into an existing agent, as an enhancement of the agent{\textquoteright}s original strategy. We provide experimental results using interaction traces from 126 agents (most of them written by students as class projects) for the Iterated Prisoner{\textquoteright}s Dilemma, Iterated Chicken Game, and Iterated Battle of the Sexes. We compared each agent with the enhanced version of that agent produced by our algorithm. The enhancements improved the agents{\textquoteright} scores by about 5\% in the IPD, 11\% in the ICG, and 26\% in the IBS, and improved their rank by about 12\% in the IPD, 38\% in the ICG, and 33\% in the IBS.},
	keywords = {agents, interaction, learning, multi-agent systems, prisoner{\textquoteright}s dilemma, repeated games},
	isbn = {978-0-9817381-1-6},
	url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1402298.1402343},
	author = {Au,Tsz-Chiu and Kraus,Sarit and Nau, Dana S.}
}
@article {17822,
	title = {Temporal agent programs},
	journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
	volume = {127},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001/03//},
	pages = {87 - 135},
	abstract = {The {\textquotedblleft}agent program{\textquotedblright} framework introduced by Eiter, Subrahmanian and Pick [Artificial Intelligence 108 (1{\textendash}2) (1999) 179], supports developing agents on top of arbitrary legacy code. Such agents are continuously engaged in an {\textquotedblleft}event\&$\#$xa0;occurs{\textrightarrow}think{\textrightarrow}act{\textrightarrow}event\&$\#$xa0;occurs{\textellipsis}{\textquotedblright} cycle. However, this framework has two major limitations: (1)all actions are assumed to have no duration, and
(2)
all actions are taken now, but cannot be scheduled for the future.
 In this paper, we present the concept of a {\textquotedblleft}temporal agent program{\textquotedblright} (tap for short) and show that using taps, it is possible to build agents on top of legacy code that can reason about the past and about the future, and that can make temporal commitments for the future now. We develop a formal semantics for such agents, extending the concept of a status set proposed by Eiter et al., and develop algorithms to compute the status sets associated with temporal agent programs. Last, but not least, we show how taps support the decision making of collaborative agents.
},
	keywords = {agents, Heterogenous systems, Information integration, logic programming, temporal reasoning},
	isbn = {0004-3702},
	doi = {10.1016/S0004-3702(01)00052-2},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370201000522},
	author = {Dix,J{\"u}rgen and Kraus,Sarit and V.S. Subrahmanian}
}
@conference {17240,
	title = {Intelligent software agents vs. user-controlled direct manipulation: a debate},
	booktitle = {CHI {\textquoteright}97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems: looking to the future},
	series = {CHI EA {\textquoteright}97},
	year = {1997},
	month = {1997///},
	pages = {105 - 106},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Critical issues in human-computer interaction - in particular, the advantages and disadvantages of intelligent agents and direct manipulation - will be discussed, debated, and hotly contested. The intent of the participants is to strike an appropriate balance between a serious discussion of the issues and an entertaining debate.},
	keywords = {agents, direct manipulation, graphical representation, intelligent interfaces},
	isbn = {0-89791-926-2},
	doi = {10.1145/1120212.1120281},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1120212.1120281},
	author = {Maes,Pattie and Shneiderman, Ben and Miller,Jim}
}
