Your Virtual Butler The Making-of

In most scenarios of the future a personalized virtual butler appears. This butler not only performs communication and coordination tasks but also gives recommendations on how to handle everyday problems.The aim of this book is to explore the prerequisite

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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editor Robert Trappl Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK) Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] and Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna Spitalgasse 4, 1090 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-37346-6 ISBN 978-3-642-37345-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37346-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2013934225 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.0-1, I.2.9, I.2.11, H.5.3-4, K.4.1-2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence

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Preface

In most scenarios of the future, e.g., the one commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research in their Vision “Living in a Networked World: Individually and Safely” and undertaken by the Institute of Future Studies and Technology Assessment named “Tina and Her Butler,” there is a personalized virtual butler. This butler not only performs communication and coordination tasks, but also gives recommendations on how to handle everyday problems; the butler also knows some of the most intimate quirks of its owner. It clearly has to be