Autonomous agents transcend their individual capabilities by cooperating towards achieving shared goals. The different viewpoints agents have on the environment cause disagreements about the anticipated effects of plans. Reaching agreement requires the resolution of such inconsistencies and the alignment of the agents’ viewpoints. We present a dialogue protocol that enables agents to discuss ca...

Traditional Q&A systems are efficient at interpretation of single questions and extraction of the corresponding answer from unstructured texts, but cannot handle many of the interaction features that make dialogue systems so efficient for information access. Dialogue systems, on the other hand, can handle connected dialogues, but are normally developed to access structured data, often stored in...

The recent application of RNN encoder-decoder models has resulted in substantial progress in fully data-driven dialogue systems, but evaluation remains a challenge. An adversarial loss could be a way to directly evaluate the extent to which generated dialogue responses sound like they came from a human. This could reduce the need for human evaluation, while more directly evaluating on a generat...

This paper argues that the major workplace inclusion strategies for accommodating diversity in Canada – including employment equity, affirmative action, pay equity, and diversity management – are part of a national development agenda that should be situated within a global dialogue on economics and pluralism, and this is a key to understanding and engaging sound employment policy and thus reali...

Contemplace is a spatial personality that redesigns itself dynamically according to its conversations with its visitors. Sometimes welcoming, sometimes shy, and sometimes hostile, Contemplace's mood is apparent through a display of projected graphics, spatial sound, and physical motion. Contemplace is an environment in which inhabitation becomes a two-way dialogue.

The status and the treatment of detainees in the ‘war on terror’ is one of the major contentious topics in current transatlantic relations. This article aims to explain the reasons for transatlantic disunity on this issue as well as to assess its impact on the stability and the persistence of the transatlantic security community. I argue that divergent strategic cultures are the main source of ...

after the collapse of bipolar system in the world, different views and theories expressed by the scholars and thinkers about the future of the world and international system. one of them is the theory of “ the clash of civilizations” which was propounded in 1993 by the samuel huntington, the director of j.m.olin institute for strategic studies in harvard uni-versity. this theory caused some anx...

The ability of people, and of machines, to determine the position of a sound source in a room is well studied. The related ability to determine the orientation of a directed sound source, on the other hand, is not, but the few studies there are show people to be surprisingly skilled at it. This has bearing for studies of face-to-face interaction and of embodied spoken dialogue systems, as sound...

My PhD focusses on argumentation-based communication between agents. I take, as a starting point, the argumentation system proposed by Garcı́a and Simari [22], which allows a single agent to reason about its beliefs. I define a novel dialogue system that allows two agents to use Garcı́a and Simari’s system to carry out inter-agent argumentation. I define two specific protocols for two different t...