Agent-human coordination with communication costs under uncertainty

  • Authors:
  • Asaf Frieder;Raz Lin;Sarit Kraus

  • Affiliations:
  • Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel;Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel;Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel and University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

As agents' technology becomes increasing more prevalent, coordination in mixed agent-human environments becomes a key issue. Agent-human coordination is becoming even more important in real life situations, where uncertainty and incomplete information exists and communication is costly. While abundant research has focused on aspects of computerized teamwork, little attention has been given to the issues raised in teams that consist of both computerized agents and people. In this paper we focus on teamwork between an agent and a human counterpart and present a novel agent designed to interact proficiently with people. In extensive simulations we matched our agent with people and compared it with another state-of-the-art agent. Our results demonstrate the significant improvement in coordination when our agent is involved.