Intelligent Virtual Agents 5th International Working Conference, IVA
The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). This workshop was followed by a second one
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Themis Panayiotopoulos Jonathan Gratch Ruth Aylett Daniel Ballin Patrick Olivier Thomas Rist (Eds.)
Intelligent Virtual Agents 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005 Kos, Greece, September 12-14, 2005 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Themis Panayiotopoulos University of Piraeus, Department of Informatics 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., Piraeus, 18534, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies 13274 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA E-mail: [email protected] Ruth Aylett Heriot-Watt University, Mathematics and Computer Science Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK E-mail: [email protected] Daniel Ballin Chief Technology Office BT Group, Room 66, B54, Adastral Park, Ipswich IP5 3RE, UK E-mail: [email protected] Patrick Olivier University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Informatics Research Institute Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK E-mail: [email protected] Thomas Rist University of Applied Sciences Augsburg Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161 Augsburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2005931803 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, H.5, H.4, K.3 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). This workshop was followed by a second one held in Salford in Manchester in 1999. Subsequent events took place in Madrid, Spain in 2001 and Irsee, Germany in 2003 and attracted participants from both sides of the Atlantic as well as Asia. This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005, held on Kos Island, Greece, September 12–14, 2005, which highlighted once again the importance and
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