Stacy Marsella Publications

Stacy C. Marsella

Selected Publications.

N.B. The following categories are only a rough guide so you may need to check related categories.

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Marsella, S. and Gratch, J. EMA: A process model of appraisal dynamics, Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, (in press).

Ito, J,, Pynadath, J. and Marsella, S. Modeling Self-Deception within a Decision-Theoretic Framework. In Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligence Virtual Agents (IVA) September, 2008.

Marsella, S. and Gratch, J. EMA: A computational model of appraisal dynamics, European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, 2006.

Gratch, J., Marsella, S. & Mao, W.. Towards a Validated Model of "Emotional Intelligence." Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI06). Boston, MA. 2006

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella, "The Architectural Role of Emotion in Cognitive Systems," in Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems, Wayne Gray (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2007.

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella, "Evaluating a computational model of emotion," Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Special issue on the best of AAMAS 2004), 11(1), pp. 23-43 (PDF)

Jonathan Gratch, Wenji Mao and Stacy Marsella, "Modeling Social Emotions and Social Attributions," in Cognitive Modeling and Multi-Agent Interaction, Run Sun (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp 219-251.

Wang, N. & Marsella, S.. Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006.

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella, "Some Lessons for Emotion Psychology for the Design of Lifelike Characters," Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence (special issue on Educational Agents - Beyond Virtual Tutors), vol. 19(3-4), 2005, pp. 215-233. (PDF)

Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella, "A Domain-independent framework for modeling emotion, " Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2004, pp. 269-306

Gratch, J. and Marsella, S. Evaluating the modeling and use of emotion in virtual humans.. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, New York, 2004.

Marsella S. and Gratch, J. Modeling Coping Behavior in Virtual Humans: Don't Worry, Be Happy.. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Australia, 2003.

Gratch, J. and Marsella S.Fight the Way You Train: The Role and Limits of Emotions in Training for Combat. The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Vol X (1), Summer/Fall 2003.

Gratch, J. and Marsella, S. A Domain-independent framework for modeling emotion. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-306

Marsella S. and Gratch, J. A step toward irrationality: using emotion to change belief. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2002.

Marsella S. and Gratch, J. Modeling the Interplay of Plans and Emotions in Multi-Agent Simulations. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2001.

Gratch, J. and Marsella S. Tears and Fears: Modeling Emotions and Emotional Behaviors in Synthetic Agents. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents 2001.

Virtual Humans

Thiebaux, M., Marshall, A., Marsella, S. and Kallmann, M. SmartBody: Behavior Realization for Embodied Conversational Agents Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.

Lance, B. and Marsella, S. A Model of Gaze for the Purpose of Emotional Expression in Virtual Embodied Agents Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.

Wang, N., Marsella, S. and Hawkins, T. Individual Differences in Expressive Response: A Challenge for ECA Design Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2008.

Lance, B. and Marsella, S. Emotionally Expressive Head and Body Movements During Gaze Shifts In C. Pelachaud et al. (Eds.): IVA 2007, LNAI 4722, pp. 72-85. September 2007.

Lee, J., Marsella, S., Traum, D., Gratch, J., Lance, B. The Rickel Gazel Model: A Window on the Mind of a Virtual Human. 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, France, 2007. pp. 296-303.

Vilhjalmsson, H., Cantelmo, N., Cassell, J., Chafai, N., Kipp, M., Kopp, S., Mancini, M., Marsella, S., Marshall A., Pelachaud, C., Ruttkay Z., Thorisson, K., van Welbergen, H. and van der Werf, R. The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges IVA 2007, LNAI 4722: 99-111, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Kenny, Hartholt, Gratch, Swartout, Traum, Marsella and Piepol. Building Interactive Virtual Humans for Training Environments. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, 2007.(Best Paper Nominee)

Mark Core, David Traum, H. Chad Lane, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Michael van Lent, and Stacy Marsella. Teaching Negotiation Skills through Practice and Reflection with Virtual Humans. Simulation, November, 2006.

Martinovski, B., Traum, D. & Marsella, S. Rejection of Empathy in Negotiation, Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol 16(1), (in press).

Marsella, S., Carnicke, S., Gratch, J., Okhmatovskaia, A. and Rizzo, A. An exploration of Delsarte's structural acting system. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006.

Lee, J. & Marsella, S. Nonverbal Behavior Generator for Embodied Conversational Agents. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006.

Jonathan Gratch, Anya Okhmatovskaia, Francois Lamothe, Stacy Marsella, Mathieu Morales, R. J. van der Werf and Louis-Philippe Morency. Virtual Rapport. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006.

Stefan Kopp, Brigitte Krenn, Stacy Marsella, Andrew N. Marshall, Catherine Pelachaud, Hannes Pirker, Kristinn R. Thórisson and Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Towards a Common Framework for Multimodal Generation: The Behavior Markup Language, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006. (Best Paper Nominee)

Kristinn R. Thorisson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Catherine Pelachaud, Stefan Kopp, Norman Badler, W. Lewis Johnson, Stacy Marsella, and Brigitte Krenn. Representations for Multimodal Generation: A Workshop Report, AI Magazine v.27, 2006

William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Randall Hill, Eduard Hovy, Stacy Marsella, Jeff Rickel and David Traum, "Toward Virtual Humans," AI Magazine, v.27 2006

W. Swartout, J. Gratch, R. Hill, E. Hovy, R. Lindheim, S. Marsella, J. Rickel, D. Traum, "Simulation meets Hollywood: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Story and Character for Immersive Simulation", Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Eds. Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro, 2005

Hannes Vilhjalmsson and Stacy Marsella, "Social Peformance Framework.” in AAAI Workshop, 2005

Marcelo Kallmann and Stacy Marsella, "Hierarchical Motion Controllers for Real-Time Autonomous Virtual Humans, " in 5th International Conference on Interactive Virtual Agents, Kos, Greece, 2005

R. M. Maatman, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella, "Natural Behavior of a Listening Agent, " in 5th International Conference on Interactive Virtual Agents, Kos, Greece, 2005 (PDF)

David Traum, William Swartout, Stacy Marsella and Jonathan Gratch, "Fight, Flight, or Negotiate: Believable Strategies for Conversing under Crisis,” in 5th International Conference on Interactive Virtual Agents, Kos, Greece, 2005 (PDF)

Traum, D., Rickel, J., Gratch, J. and Marsella, S. Negotiation over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training.. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Australia, 2003.

Marsella S., Gratch, J. and Rickel, J. Expressive Behaviors for Virtual Worlds. In Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Editors), Life-like Characters Tools, Affective Functions and Applications. Springer Cognitive Technologies Series, 2003.

Lance, B., Marsella S. and Koizumi, D. Towards Expressive Gaze Manner in Embodied Virtual Agents. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Workshop on Empathic Agents, 2004.

Hill, R., Gratch, J., Marsella, S., Rickel, J., Swartout, W., & Traum, D. Virtual Humans in the Mission Rehearsal Exercise System. «. Kynstliche Intelligenz (KI Journal). 17(4), 2003. Special issue on Embodied Conversational Agents.

Rickel, S. Marsella, J. Gratch, R. Hill, D. Traum, and W. Swartout. Toward a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences. IEEE Intelligent Systems 17(4), July/August 2002, pp. 32-38. (Special issue on AI in Interactive Entertainment.).

Rickel, Rickel, J., Gratch, J., Hill, R., Marsella, S. and Swartout, W. Steve Goes to Bosnia: Towards a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences.. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment 2001.

Swartout, et al. Toward the Holodeck. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents 2001.

Social Simulation

Pynadath, David V. and Marsella, Stacy C. Minimal mental models In Proceedings of the conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI) pp. July, 2007.

Pynadath, David V. and Marsella, Stacy C. Derivation of minimal mental models In Proceedings of the AISB symposium on mindful environments pp. 372-376, 2007

Si, M., Marsella, S.C., Pynadath, D.V. Proactive Authoring for Interactive Drama: An Author's Assistant. 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, 2007.

Si, M., Marsella, S.C., Riedl, M.O. Interactive Drama Authoring with Plot and Character: An Intelligent System that Fosters Creativity. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Palo Alto, California, 2008.

Marsella, Stacy C. & Pynadath, David V. Modeling influence. and theory of mind . Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, 2005.

Pynadath, David V. and Marsella, Stacy C. PsychSim: Modeling Theory of Mind with Decision-Theoretic Agents. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1181-1186, 2005.

Pynadath, David V. and Marsella, Stacy C. Fitting and Compilation of Multiagent Models through Piecewise Linear Functions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1197-1204, 2004.

Marsella, Stacy C., Pynadath, David V., and Read, Stephen J. PsychSim: Agent-based modeling of social interactions and influence. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, pp. 243-248, 2004.

Marsella, S. and Pynadath, D.V. PsychSim: Agent-based modeling of social interactions and influence.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Pittsburg, 2004.

Si, M., Marsella, S.C., Pynadath, D.V. Thespian: Modeling Socially Normative Behavior in a Decision-Theoretic Framework, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina del Rey, CA, 2006.

Si, M., Marsella, S.C., Pynadath, D..V. Social Norms Models in Thespian: Using Decision Theoretical Framework for Interactive Dramas. Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour. AISB Symposium, (AISB) 2006.

Interactive Drama

Marsella, S. Experiences Authoring Interactive Pedagogical Dramas. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL) (in press).

Si, M., Marsella, S.C., Pynadath, D.V. Proactive Authoring for Interactive Drama: An Author's Assistant. 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, 2007.

Si, Mei, Marsella, Stacy C., and Pynadath, David V. Thespian: Using Multi-Agent Fitting to Craft Interactive Drama. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 21-28, 2005.

Si, Mei, Marsella, Stacy C., and Pynadath, David V. Thespian: An Architecture for Interactive Pedagogical Drama. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, 2005.

Marsella S., Johnson, W.L. and LaBore, C. Interactive Pedagogical Drama for Health Interventions.. AIED 2003, 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Australia, 2003.

Marsella S., Johnson, W.L., LaBore, K. Interactive Pedagogical Drama. Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents 2000.

Marsella, S. Pedagogical Soap. In Dautenhahn, K. (ed) Socially Intelligent Agents: The Book.

Marsella, S. Pedagogical Soap. In Dautenhahn, K. (ed) Socially Intelligent Agents: The Human in the Loop. AAAI Fall 2000 Symposium. AAAI Technical report FS-00-04

Marsella, S. Sympathy for the Agent. Agents 2000 Workshop on Achieving Human-Like behavior in Interactive Animated Agents.

Marsella, S. & Johnson, W.L. An Instructor's Assistant for Team-Training in dynamic multi-agent virtual worlds.HTML Shorter PDF version In Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 98, Springer-Verlag.

Johnson, W.L., Marsella, S. & Rickel, J. Pedagogical Agents in Virtual Team Training. In Christopher Landauer & Kirstie Bellman (Eds), Proceedings of the Virtual Worlds and Simulation Conference (VWSIM ‘98), The Society for Computer Simulation International, San Diego, 1998, Pp. 72-77.

Multi-Agent Systems

Marsella, S., Adibi, J., Alonaizan, Y., Kaminka, G., Muslea, I., Tambe, M..Experiences acquired in the design of robocup teams: A comparison of two fielded teams. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, special issue on "Best of Agents'99", Vol. 4, 115-129.

Tambe, M., Kaminka, G., Marsella, S., Muslea, I. and Raines, T. Two fielded teams and two experts: A robocup response challenge from the trenches. Proceedings of the International joint conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'99.

Marsella, S., Adibi, J., Alonaizan, Y., Kaminka, G., Muslea, I. & Tambe, M. On being a teammate: Experiences acquired in the design of robocup teams. Proceedings of the 3^rd International conference on Autonomous agents, Agents'99.

Raines, T., Tambe, M., and Marsella, S. Agent Assistants for Team Analysis AI Magazine, 2000.

Raines, T., Tambe, M., and Marsella, S. Automated TEAM Analysis (to appear in a Springer Verlag volume on RoboCup 99).

Raines, T., Tambe, M. and Marsella, S. Towards automated team analysis: a machine learning approach. Third international RoboCup competitions and workshop 1999.

Tambe, M., Adibi, J., Alonaizon, Y., Erdem, A., Kaminka, G., Marsella, S. and Muslea, I. 1999 Building agent teams using an explicit teamwork model and learning. Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 110, 1999.

Nair, R., Tambe, M. and Marsella, S. Role allocation and Reallocation in Multiagent Teams: Towards A Practical Analysis.. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Australia, 2003.

Raines, T., Tambe, M., and Marsella, S. Automated agents that help humans understand agent team behaviors, Proceedings of the 4^th International conference on Autonomous Agents, 2000.

Marsella, S., Adibi, J., Alonaizon, Y., Erdem, A., Hill, R.. Kaminka, G., Tambe, M. and Zhun, Q. Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning in RoboCup. HTML PDF RoboCup'98: Proceedings of the second robot world cup competition and conferences, Springer Verlag, 1998.

Planning

Marsella, S. Structure and Communication in Planning. In Zenon Pylyshyn (Ed.), Options for Cognitive Theory: Issues and Methods for a Science of Cognition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 1998.

Marsella, S. Planning under the restriction of Hierarchical Partial Orders. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1993.

Marsella, S. & Schmidt, C. F. A method for biasing the learning of nonterminal reduction rules. In S. Minton (Ed.), Machine Learning Methods for Planning. Menlo Park, CA:Morgan Kaufmann, 1993, pp. 499-535.

Marsella, S. & Schmidt, C. F. On the application of problem reduction search to automated composition. In M. Balaban, K. Ebcioglu, & O. Laske (Eds.), Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press, 1992, pp. 238-256.

Schmidt, C. F. & Marsella, S. Planning and plan recognition from a computational point of view. In A. Whiten (Ed.) Natural Theories of Mind. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 109-126.

Marsella, S. C. & Schmidt, C.F. Reactive planning using a "Situation Space". In Planning in Uncertain, Unpredictable, or Changing Environments (Working Notes of the 1990 AAAI Spring Symposium) Edited by James Hendler. Available as SRC TR 90-45 of the Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. 1990.

Schmidt, C. F., Goodson, J. L., Marsella, S. C., & Bresina, J. L. Reactive planning using a "situation space". Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference, Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society Press, March, 1989, pp. 50-55.

Marsella, S. C. & Schmidt, C. F. Problem reduction, automated music composition, and interactive performance. In Proceedings The Arts and Technology II: A Symposium, Connecticut College: Feb. 2-5, 1989, pp.120-131.

Marsella, S. C., Schmidt, C.F., & Bresina, J. L. A problem reduction approach to automated composition. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on AI and Music, AAAI-88, August, 1988, pp.148-162.

Robertson, S.P., Koizumi, D. & Marsella, S.C. Constraints on training: Informativeness and breadth in procedural skill learning. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Vol. 1, 377-380, 1988.

Et Cetera

Gratch, J., Marsella, S., Hill, R. & Stone, G. "Deriving Priority Information Requirements for Synthetic Command Entities," Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, 1999.

Erdem, Johnson & Marsella. Task Oriented Software Understanding. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE «International Conference on Automated Software Engineering", 1998.

Erdem, Johnson & Marsella. Extended Automated Software Engineering Journal version of above.

Adobbati, Johnson & Marsella, Automatic Generation of Visual Presentations for Software Understanding, Proceedings of the California Software Symposium, Irvine, California, 1998.