Abstract
Agents situated in dynamic environments can be supplied in advance with a repertoire of plans that permit them to rapidly generate appropriate sequences of actions in response to important events. When agents can form teams, new problems emerge regarding the representation and execution of joint actions. In this paper we introduce a language for representing joint plans for teams of agents, we describe how agents can organize the formation of a suitably skilled team to achieve a joint goal, and we explain how such a team can execute these plans to generate complex, synchronized team activity. The formalism provides a framework for representing and reasoning about joint actions in which various approaches to co-ordination and commitment can be explored.
This work was supported in part by the Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Decision Systems, the Australian Research Council, and a Generic Industry Research and Development Grant from the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australia.
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Kinny, D., Sonenberg, E., Ljungberg, M., Tidhar, G., Rao, A., Werner, E. (1994). Planned team activity. In: Castelfranchi, C., Werner, E. (eds) Artificial Social Systems. MAAMAW 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58266-5_13
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