• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.43-51
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• 2007

We have developed a peer agent to support programming learning and analyzed its educational effects in a programming course. The agent acts as a tutor or a tutee. The role of a tutor/tutee is like the role of a navigator/driver in pair programming. While students are learning with the peer agent, the students' programming abilities are modeled. Based on the student's model, the peer agent provides appropriate feedbacks and contents to the learner. The peer agent gives positive effects on learners' achievement and self-efficacy in a programming course. It means that the peer agent system helps the learner in an affective domain as well as a cognitive domain.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2001.12a
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• pp.348-361
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• 2001

최근 몇 년 사이에 인터넷(Internet) 공간상에서 거래되는 선박매매 사이트의 출현으로 인하여 사이버해운거래 시장이 형성되고 있다. 인터넷은 다양한 정보제공자에 의해 광범위한 분야의 정보를 멀티미디어 형태로 전달한다는 점에서 매우 각광을 받고 있지만 이용자의 증가로 무수한 정보들이 걸러지지 못한 채로 Web상에 존재하게 되었다 따라서, 이러한 정보들을 체계적으로 정리하고, 이용자들의 구미에 맞게 가공된 정보의 필요성이 대두되게 되었다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 이용자가 원하는 것을 스스로 인지하고 판단하여 요구사항을 해결해주는 '지능적 대리인' 또는 '지능을 가진 도우미'라고 일컫는 지능형 에이전트(Intelligent Agent)의 필요성이 대두되었다. 지능형 에이전트는 그 다양한 기능으로 인하여 인터넷에서 매우 중요한 요소로 자리잡게 되었다. 우리나라를 비롯해서 선진 해운국에서는 선박매매사이트를 개설하여 사이버 공간상에서 거래를 수행하고 있지만, 사이트별 등록된 선박의 수가 많지 않을 뿐 아니라 거래대상 선박의 표현 방식도 사이트별 국가별로 매우 달라, 선박 매매 시 충분한 매매대상 선박정보를 획득하기 어려운 실정이다. 본 연구는 선박매매 시 고객에게 매매 선박정보를 제공해주는 선박매매용 에이전트 설계를 목표로 하고 있다. Bargainfinder, Bargainboat, Shopboat, Price watch 등 쇼핑몰을 대상으로 하는 비교쇼핑에이전트는 상용화되어 운영되고 있지만 선박매매용 에이전트에 관한 연구는 시도되지 않고 있다. 본 연구는 선박매매용 에이전트를 개발하기 위한 설계연구로서 다음 사항에 대한 연구가 시도되었다. (a) 구매 선박에 대한 요구사항 표현 방법 (b) 관련 선박의 표현, 등록 및 색인방법 (c) 공급 선박의 분류와 표현 방법 (d) 에이전트의 정보 수집을 위한 메시지 표현 방법 (e) 수집된 선박정보의 데이터베이스 저장 표현방법 (f) 요구 선박을 찾아주는 정보제공 서비스가 요구된다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2006

Important issues emerging with the opening of the ubiquitous age are how to present ubiquitous environment and how services and access methods can be provided to users. The present research proposes a system that can provide users with useful information dynamically through intelligent multi agents in mobile environment. The system is composed of profile module, rule generation module, filtering module and service module. It was designed to find users' demands in an intelligent way based on information on users registered through the recommendation agent. We implemented an applied system and proved its performance through an experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.136-138
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• 2003

로봇이나 가상 캐릭터와 같은 지능형 에이전트가 자율적으로 살아가기 위해서는 주어진 환경을 인식하고, 그에 맞는 최적의 행동을 선택하는 능력을 가지고 있어야 한다. 본 논문은 이러한 지능형 에이전트를 구현하기 위하여, 외부 환경에 적응하면서 최적의 행동을 배우고 선택하는 방법을 연구하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방식은 강화 학습을 이용한 행동기반 학습 방법과 기호 학습을 이용한 인지 학습 방법을 통합한 방식으로 다음과 같은 특징을 가진다. 첫째, 외부 환경의 적응성을 수행하기 위하여 강화 학습을 이용하였으며. 이는 지능형 에이전트가 변화하는 환경에 대한 유연성을 가지도록 하였다. 둘째. 경험들에서 귀납적 기계학습과 연관 규칙을 이용하여 규칙을 추출하여 에이전트의 목적에 맞는 환경 요인을 학습함으로 주어진 환경에서 보다 빠르게, 확장된 환경에서 보다 효율적으로 행동을 선택을 하도록 하였다. 제안한 통합방식은 기존의 강화 학습만을 고려한 학습 알고리즘에 비하여 학습 속도를 향상 시킬수 있으며, 기호 학습만을 고려한 학습 알고리즘에 비하여 환경에 유연성을 가지고 행동을 적용할 수 있는 장점을 가진다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.13-21
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• 2003

This study presents a design of Teachable Agent(TA) and its theoretical background. TA is an intelligent agent to which students as tutors teach, pose questions, and provide feedbacks using a concept map. TA consists of four independent Modules, Teach Module, Q&A Module, Test Module, and Resource Module. In Teach Module, students teach TA by constructing concept map. In Q&A Module, both students and TA ask questions and answer questions each other through an interactive window. To assess TA's knowledge and provide feedback to students, Test Module consists of a set of predetermined questions which TA should pass. From Resource Module, students can search and look up important information to teach, ask questions, and provide feedbacks whenever they want. It is expected that TA should provide student tutors with an active role in learning and positive attitude toward the subject matter by enhancing their cognition as well as motivation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.203-214
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• 2020

Nowadays, smart speakers are increasingly personalized and serve as recommendation agents for user. The aim of this study is find out effects of 'Explanation facilities' on transparency, perceived trust, user satisfaction, behavioral intentions of users to reuse, privacy risk, and quality of recommendation in the context of an interact with smart speaker's conversational agents. And we also use measurement for level of privacy concerns to see individuals's level of privacy concerns affected the assessment. The result of this study as follow; First, all measurement variable are significantly related to 'Explanation facilities' Second, perceived trust, privacy risk are significantly related to individual's level of privacy concern. This study found that 'Explanation facilities' could be applied in context of smart speaker and possibility of cognitive dissonance according to the level of privacy concerns.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.267-278
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• 2009

Today an embodied agent generates a large amount of interest because of its vital role for human-human interactions and human-computer interactions in virtual world. A number of researchers have found that we can recognize and distinguish between various emotions expressed by an embodied agent. In addition many studies found that we respond to simulated emotions in a similar way to human emotion. This study investigates interpretation of mismatched emotions expressed by an embodied agent (e.g. a happy face with a sad voice); whether audio-visual channel integration occurs or one channel dominates when participants judge the emotion. The study employed a 4 (visual: happy, sad, warm, cold) $\times$ 4 (audio: happy, sad, warm, cold) within-subjects repeated measure design. The results suggest that people perceive emotions not depending on just one channel but depending on both channels. Additionally facial expression (happy face vs. sad face) makes a difference in influence of two channels; Audio channel has more influence in interpretation of emotions when facial expression is happy. People were able to feel other emotion which was not expressed by face or voice from mismatched emotional expressions, so there is a possibility that we may express various and delicate emotions with embodied agent by using only several kinds of emotions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.77-84
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• 2003

A mobile agent is a program which represents a user in a network and is capable of migrating from one node to another node, performing computations on behalf of the user. In this paper, we suggest a scheme that can safely recover mobile agent using the checkpoint that is saved at the platform that it visited previously and restart its execution from the abnormal termination point of the mobile agent. For security, mobile agent uses its public key to encrypt the checkpoint and the home platform uses the private key of the mobile agent to decrypt the encrypted checkpoints at the recovery stage. When home platform receives the checkpoint of the mobile agent, home platform verifies the checkpoint using message digest. Home platform verifies the correctness of the checkpoint by comparing the message digest generated at checkpoint mention time with the message digest generated at mobile agent recovery time.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.351-368
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• 2005

The manual construction of the knowledge-base takes much time and effort, and it is hard to adjust intelligence systems to dynamic and flexible environment. Thus mental development in those systems has been investigated in recent years. Autonomous mental development is a new paradigm for developing autonomous machines, which are adaptive and flexible to the environment. Learning conversation, a kind of mental development, is an important aspect of conversational agents. In this paper, we propose a learning conversation method for conversational agents which uses several promising techniques; speech-act templates and genetic programming. Knowledge acquisition of conversational agents is implemented by finite state machines and templates, and dynamic sentence generation is implemented by genetic programming Several illustrations and usability tests how the usefulness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2004

The reason that an intelligent agent cannot understand the representation of its own perception or activity is caused by the traditional syntactic approach that translates a semantic feature into a simulated string, To implement an autonomously learning intelligent agent, Cohen introduces a experimentally semantic approach that the system learns a contentful representation of physical schema from physically interacting with environment using its own sensors and effectors. We propose that negation is a meta-level schema that enables an agent to recognize its own physical schema, To improve the planner's efficiency, Graphplan introduces the control rule that manipulates the inconsistency between planning operators, but it cannot cognitively understand negation and suffers from redundancy problem. By introducing a negative function not, IPP solves the problem, but its approach is still syntactic and is inefficient in terms of time and space. In this paper, we propose that, to represent a negative fact, a positive atom, which is called opposite concept, is a very efficient technique for implementing an cognitive agent, and demonstrate some empirical results supporting the hypothesis.