Unified theories of cognition
Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
JAM: a BDI-theoretic mobile agent architecture
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Using plan recognition in human-computer collaboration
UM '99 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling
Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
GameBots: a flexible test bed for multiagent team research
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Towards Flexible Teamwork in Persistent Teams
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
The Adaptive Agent Architecture: Achieving Fault-Tolerance Using Persistent Broker Teams
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Towards flexible teamwork in behavior-based robots: extended abstract
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
CAST: collaborative agents for simulating teamwork
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Coordination and multi-tasking using EMT
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
An integrated development environment and architecture for soar-based agents
IAAI'07 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence - Volume 2
The goal oriented teams (GORITE) framework
ProMAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Curing robot autism: a challenge
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
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There is significant interest in modeling teamwork in agents. In recent years, it has become widely accepted that it is possible to separate teamwork from taskwork, providing support for domain-independent teamwork at an architectural level, using teamwork models. However, existing teamwork models (both in theory and practice) focus almost exclusively on achievement goals, and ignore maintenance goals, where the value of a proposition is to be maintained over time. Such maintenance goals exist both in taskwork (i.e., agents take actions to maintain a condition while a task is executing), as well as in teamwork (i.e., agents take actions to maintain the team). This paper presents mechanisms for collaborative maintenance in both taskwork and teamwork, allowing for flexible selection of the maintenance protocol. The mechanism is integrated and evaluated in two teamwork architectures for situated agent teams: DIESEL, an implemented teamwork and taskwork architecture, built on top of Soar, and BITE, an architecture for physical behavior-based robots. We provide details of these implementations, and the results from experiments demonstrating the benefits of support for collaborative maintenance processes, in several dynamic rich domains. We show that the use of collaborative maintenance leads to significant improvement in task performance in all domains.