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Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction

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Agents and Computational Autonomy (AUTONOMY 2003)

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Several research groups have grappled with the problem of characterizing and developing practical approaches for implementing adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction in deployed systems. However, each group takes a little different approach and uses variations of the same terminology in a somewhat different fashion. In this chapter, we will describe some common dimensions in an effort to better understand these important but ill-characterized topics. We are developing a formalism and implementation of these concepts as part of the KAoS framework in the context of our research on policy-governed autonomous systems.

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    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Paul J. Feltovich, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kulkarni, William Taysom & Andrzej Uszok

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Bradshaw, J.M., Feltovich, P.J., Jung, H., Kulkarni, S., Taysom, W., Uszok, A. (2004). Dimensions of Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M., Weiss, G. (eds) Agents and Computational Autonomy. AUTONOMY 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_3

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