@inproceedings{5ed74f2c86d7406988807024d7563ba4,
title = "Agents United: An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems",
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.",
keywords = "coaching, multi-agent system, Open source platform, social conversational agents",
author = "Tessa Beinema and Daniel Davison and Dennis Reidsma and Oresti Banos and Merijn Bruijnes and Brice Donval and Valero, {{\'A}lvaro Fides} and Gerwin Huizing and Kostas Konsolakis and {More Authors}",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1145/3472306.3478352",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2021",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "17--24",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2021",
address = "United States",
note = "21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2021 ; Conference date: 14-09-2021 Through 17-09-2021",
}