Exploiting Belief Bounds: Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant Agents

• Main Authors: VARAKANTHAM, Pradeep, Maheswaran, Rajiv, Tambe, Milind
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: meeting rescheduling; task allocation; partially observable markov decision process (POMDP); Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Business; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/938; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1937/viewcontent/p774_varakantham.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users themselves) and making periodic decisions based on such monitoring. POMDPs appear well suited to enable agents to address...