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Agent Chameleons: Virtual Agents Real Intelligence

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2003)

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Agent Chameleons provides virtual agents powered by real intelligence, delivering next generation autonomic entities that can seamlessly migrate, mutate and evolve on their journey between and within physical and digital information spaces.

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O’Hare, G.M.P., Duffy, B.R., Schön, B., Martin, A.N., Bradley, J.F. (2003). Agent Chameleons: Virtual Agents Real Intelligence. In: Rist, T., Aylett, R.S., Ballin, D., Rickel, J. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2792. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39396-2_37

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