Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
Designing behaviors for information agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
How might people interact with agents
Software agents
KAoS: toward an industrial-strength open agent architecture
Software agents
TRIPs: an integrated intelligent problem-solving assistant
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Exception handling in agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
A Knowledge-based Approach to Handling Exceptions inWorkflow Systems
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Jini Specification
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Towards Flexible Teamwork in Persistent Teams: Extended Report
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Development of a Constraint-Based Airlift Scheduler by Program Synthesis from Formal Specifications
ASE '99 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
An Approach to Mixed-Initiative Management of Heterogeneous Software Agent Teams
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Integrating Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent Planning System
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Scaling Teamwork to Very Large Teams
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Improving computer-mediated information alignment in production organizations
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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We are interested in developing models of and support for mixed-initiative human control of software agent teams, especially in the larger context of dynamic, real world organizations. In this paper, we describe a model for the establishment of cooperative information sharing among agents on teams formed dynamically for particular purposes within such organizations. We argue that effective information sharing in the presence of such teams requires the active dissemination of descriptions of current and future information needs to both local teammates and to the larger organization. Only by this mechanism can one avoid having to make explicit at design time who will provide each bit of the information. We consider how information sharing within the organization can be promoted not only for the immediate goals shared by a tightly coordinated team, but some of the likely information needs of the larger organization going forward. We illustrate the model by describing its application to a large-scale agent-based simulation of the US Military's disaster relief response to the devastation caused in Central America by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. The demonstration was developed in conjunction with a large group of researchers representing eight different institutions.