Context-centric proactive information delivery

Xiaocong Fan, John Yen, Rui Wang, Shuang Sun, Richard A. Volz

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Systems. IAT 2004
EditorsN. Zhong, J. Bradshaw, S.K. Pal, D. Talia, J. Liu, N. Cercone
Pages31-37
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IAT 2004 - Beijing, China
Duration: Sep 20 2004Sep 24 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IAT 2004

Other

OtherProceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IAT 2004
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period9/20/049/24/04

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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