TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE TEAMWORK MODEL FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC DOMAINS

Hendrik Skubch, Michael Wagner, Roland Reichle, Stefan Triller, Kurt Geihs

2010

Abstract

Cooperative behaviour of agents within highly dynamic and nondeterministic domains is an active field of research. In particular establishing responsive teamwork, where agents are able to react to dynamic changes in the environment while facing unreliable communication and sensory noise, is an open problem. Unexpectedly changing situations force agents to react and adapt under tight time-constraints. Hence they often cannot communicate or agree upon their decisions before acting upon them. We present a novel model for cooperative behaviour geared towards such domains. In our approach, the agents estimate each other's decision and correct these estimations once they receive contradictory information. We aim at a comprehensive approach for agent teamwork featuring intuitive modelling capabilities for multi-agent activities, abstractions over activities and agents, and clear operational semantics for the new model. We show experimentally that the resulting behaviour stabilises towards teamwork and can achieve a cooperative goal.

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Skubch H., Wagner M., Reichle R., Triller S. and Geihs K. (2010). TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE TEAMWORK MODEL FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC DOMAINS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-022-1, pages 121-127. DOI: 10.5220/0002701201210127


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Hendrik Skubch and Michael Wagner and Roland Reichle and Stefan Triller and Kurt Geihs},
title={TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE TEAMWORK MODEL FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC DOMAINS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={121-127},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002701201210127},
isbn={978-989-674-022-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE TEAMWORK MODEL FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC DOMAINS
SN - 978-989-674-022-1
AU - Skubch H.
AU - Wagner M.
AU - Reichle R.
AU - Triller S.
AU - Geihs K.
PY - 2010
SP - 121
EP - 127
DO - 10.5220/0002701201210127