University of Southern California

Researchers Nominated for Best Paper Award

May 01, 2008

The paper on ICT’s Smartbody research project is one of three papers nominated for best paper at the upcoming AAMAS conference (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), the premiere Agent conference in Portugal, May 12 - 16. The paper, “SmartBody: Behavior Realization for Embodied Conversational Agents”, was authored by Marcus Thiebaux, Andrew Marshall, Stacy Marsella of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, Marcelo Kallmann of UC Merced, and ICT’s Patrick Kenny and Edward Fast.