TY - GEN
T1 - Improving agent team performance through helper agents
AU - Manner, Marie D.
AU - Gini, Maria L
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, we consider the problem of environmental constraints on teams and examine how the constraints impact teamwork. We simulate a realistic problem for teams in the physical world by implementing a limit on the range of communication among agents. Using BlocksWorld for Teams from Delft University of Technology, we build teams of 3-4 agents with varying communication ranges and of different agent type (regular task-performer, communication-only or reconnaissance-only) to test team performance in the constrained environment. We analyze the results and discuss implications to the team mental model. We show that adding a helper agent to the team can reduce task completion time, but not for all types of agents and environments.
AB - In this paper, we consider the problem of environmental constraints on teams and examine how the constraints impact teamwork. We simulate a realistic problem for teams in the physical world by implementing a limit on the range of communication among agents. Using BlocksWorld for Teams from Delft University of Technology, we build teams of 3-4 agents with varying communication ranges and of different agent type (regular task-performer, communication-only or reconnaissance-only) to test team performance in the constrained environment. We analyze the results and discuss implications to the team mental model. We show that adding a helper agent to the team can reduce task completion time, but not for all types of agents and environments.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-36444-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-36444-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874801282
SN - 9783642364433
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 89
EP - 105
BT - Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments - First International Workshop, CAVE 2012, Held at AAMAS 2012, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments, CAVE 2012, Held at AAMAS 2012
Y2 - 4 June 2012 through 4 June 2012
ER -