How synthetic characters can help decision making

摘要: Synthetic characters are intelligent agents able to show typical human-like cognitive behavior and an artificially-made perceived personality by means of complex natural language interaction artificial reasoning emotional skills. They mainly spreading on the web as highly interactive digital assistants tutoring online database systems, e-commerce sites, web-based communities, psychotherapy, anal in several consulting situations where humans need assistance from software. Until now, synthetic characters, equipped with data, models, simulation skills, have never been thought building blocks for interaction-based DMSS. This chapter illustrates first research development attempt this sense Open Source project progress centred design a character-based