Agents United

An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

Tessa Beinema University of Twente, Roessingh Research and Development
Daniel Davison University of Twente
Dennis Reidsma University of Twente
Oresti Banos University of Twente, Universidad de Granada
M. Bruijnes University of Twente, Interactive Intelligence - EEMCS
Brice Donval Sorbonne Université
Álvaro Fides Valero Universitat Politécnica de Valencia
Gerwin Huizing University of Twente
Kostas Konsolakis University of Twente
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Research Group
Interactive Intelligence (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2021 Tessa Beinema, Daniel Davison, Dennis Reidsma, Oresti Banos, M. Bruijnes, Brice Donval, Álvaro Fides Valero, Gerwin Huizing, Kostas Konsolakis, More Authors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478352
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Interactive Intelligence

Abstract

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.