A Simulated Physiological/Cognitive "Double Agent"
Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie J. McShane, Stephen Beale · 2008
This paper describes the cognitive capabilities of artificial intelligent agents in Maryland Virtual Patient (MVP, an en-vironment that provides interactive, open-ended simulations of virtual patients for the training of medical personnel. The environment is implemented as an agent network that in-cludes one human agent – the user – and a network of artifi-cial agents. Some of the artificial agents have cognitive ca-pabilities, like decision-making and the ability to communi-cate using natural language. It is on the virtual patient’s de-cision-making capabilities that this paper focuses.