Stefan Rank

email:	stefan(DOT)rank(AT)oefai(DOT)at (substitute ;-)
phone:	(+43-1) 5336112-12
fax:	(+43-1) 5336112-77
web:	http://www.oefai.at/~rank
addr:	Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI) Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
up to:	Intelligent Software Agents and New Media at OeFAI

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I am ...

a doctoral (PhD) student of Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology
member of the Intelligent Software Agents and New Media group at OeFAI

Projects

I am currently working for HUMAINE and for a sub-effort of the "Artificial Intelligence Methods for eBusiness" project.

HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion) is a Network of Excellence in the EU's Sixth Framework Programme
In the eBusiness project I am investigating the benefits of AI in eLearning

Research Interests

Emotion theory and appraisal, their implementation in software agents and (virtual?) worlds, and the possible use of the result for a narrative purpose in an emergent drama.

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Under Construction

Publications

not much for now

Rank S.: Affective Acting: An Appraisal-based Architecture for Agents as Actors, Institut fuer Medizinische Kybernetik und Artificial Intelligence, Universität Wien, Diplomarbeit, 2004. (Master's thesis as pdf)

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Software

As part of my master thesis I wrote ActAffAct, an implementation of an appraisal-based architecture for software agents that could be part of an emergent narrative.