Training Believable Agents In 3D Electronic Business Environments Using Recursive-Arc Graphs Anton Bogdanovych University of Western Sydney, Australia eMarkets Research Group

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 2 Virtual Sales Assistants in 3D E-Commerce Background

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 3 Virtual Institutions: Taxonomy Background

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 4 Virtual Institutions Concept Background

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 5 Electronic Institutions Development Environment Common Ontology and language Agent Roles Multi-agent Protocols Network of protocols Norms Background

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 6 Virtual Institutions Technology Background

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 7 Learning Aspects Implicit Training

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 8 Training Scenario Implicit Training

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 9 Levels of Abstraction of the Data Implicit Training

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 10 The Recursive-Arc Graph Implicit Training

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 11 Experiments: Teaching Human-Like Locomotion via Implicit Training Implicit Training

Anton Bogdanovych, University of Western Sydney, Australia IC-Soft 2008 conference, Porto, Portugal 12 Conclusions Implicit Training is an efficient method for teaching human-like behaviors to intelligent virtual assistants in 3D E-Commerce applications The environment formalization using Virtual Institutions can significantly simplify the learning task for the assistant agent Recursive-Arc Graphs are data structures that can successfully utilize this formalization and structure the training data on different levels of abstraction