Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Artificial intelligence: a modern approach
Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Robocop: the first step
Toward Team-Oriented Programming
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Role-assignment in open agent societies
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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The problem of ensuring agents work as an effective team in dynamic distributed environments still remains a challenging issue. In this paper we proposed a role-based team model. In our model, the role characterizes the responsibilities and provides logic patterns to achieve certain goals and cooperate with others. The agent is an autonomous execution unit and follows the logic patterns that the role provides. We also developed algorithms and mechanisms to evolve the plan of a role to the plan of an agent. Our role-based team model allows the split of roles (who define the plans) and agents (who execute the plans) in team plans, and dynamic role-agent assignment. It also achieves a certain level of plan reusability. We present two experiments which show plan reusability and its flexibility in supporting simultaneously plan invocation.