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The incompleteness and uncertainty about the state of the world and about the consequences of actions are unavoidable. If we want to predict the performance of multiuser computing systems, we have the uncertainty of what the users are going to do, and how that affects system performance. Intelligent interface agent development is one way to mitigate the uncertainty about user behaviors by predicting what users will do based on learned users’ behaviors, preferences, and intentions. This work focuses on developing user models that can analyze and predict user behavior in multi-agent systems. We have developed a formal theory of user behavior prediction based on hidden Markov models. This work learns the user model through a time-series action analysis and abstraction by taking users’ preferences and intentions into account in order to formally define user modeling.
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Lee, JJ., McCartney, R. (1999). Predicting User Actions Using Interface Agents with Individual User Models. In: Nakashima, H., Zhang, C. (eds) Approaches to Intelligence Agents. PRIMA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46693-2_12
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