Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems

Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents Pub Date : 2021-09-14 DOI:10.1145/3472306.3478352

Tessa Beinema, Daniel P. Davison, D. Reidsma, O. Baños, Merijn Bruijnes, B. Donval, Álvaro Fides Valero, D. Heylen, Dennis Hofs, Gerwin Huizing, Reshamashree B. Kantharaju, R. Klaassen, Jan Kolkmeier, Kostas Konsolakis, A. Pease, C. Pelachaud, Donatella Simonetti, Mark Snaith, V. Traver, Jorien van Loon, J. Visser, M. Weusthof, Fajrian Yunus, H. Hermens, H. O. D. Akker, Merijn Brui, R. Kantharaju

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The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes with integration of multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United Platform: an open source platform that researchers and developers can use as a starting point to setup their own multi-IVA applications. The new platform provides developers with a set of integrated components in a sense-remember-think-act architecture. Integrated components are a sensor framework, memory component, Topic Selection Engine, interaction manager (Flipper), two dialogue execution engines, and two behaviour realisers (ASAP and GRETA) of which the agents can seamlessly interact with each other. This article discusses the platform and its individual components. It also highlights some of the novelties that arise from the integration of components and elaborates on directions for future work.

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agent United:多agent对话系统的开放平台

具有智能虚拟代理(IVA)的应用程序的开发通常伴随着多个复杂组件的集成。在本文中，我们将介绍Agents United Platform:这是一个开源平台，研究人员和开发人员可以将其作为建立自己的多iva应用程序的起点。新平台以“感知-记忆-思考-行动”的架构为开发人员提供了一组集成组件。集成组件包括传感器框架、内存组件、主题选择引擎、交互管理器(Flipper)、两个对话执行引擎和两个行为实现器(ASAP和GRETA)，其中代理之间可以无缝交互。本文将讨论该平台及其各个组件。它还强调了由于组件集成而产生的一些新奇之处，并详细说明了未来工作的方向。

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