A Conversational Agent to Support Decisions in SimCity like Games

Author

Augello, Agnese ; Pilato, Giovanni ; Gaglio, Salvatore

Author_Institution

DINFO-Dipt. di Ing. Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

372

Abstract

Computational intelligent techniques applied to economics have played an important role in the last years. In this paper we propose a framework based on an intelligent conversational agent embedded with a decision support system, aimed at suggesting the best managing strategies for a game-based model of a virtual town. The agent tries to prospect the future evolutions of particular choices taken by the user. Interaction is conducted through a natural language interface built as an Alice-based conversational agent.

Keywords

computer games; multi-agent systems; natural language interfaces; SimCity like games; computational intelligence; decision support system; game-based model; intelligent conversational agent; natural language interface; virtual town; Cities and towns; Competitive intelligence; Computational intelligence; Decision support systems; Environmental economics; Humans; Intelligent agent; Natural languages; Ontologies; Uncertainty; Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE); Chatbot; Decision Support Systems (DSS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semantic Computing, 2009. ICSC '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4962-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3800-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSC.2009.74

Filename

5298654