Role-based ad hoc teamwork

Katie Genter, Noa Agmon, Peter Stone

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Abstract

An ad hoc team setting is one in which teammates must work together to obtain a common goal, but without any prior agreement regarding how to work together. In this paper we present a role-based approach for ad hoc teamwork, in which each teammate is inferred to be following a specialized role that accomplishes a specific task or exhibits a particular behavior. In such cases, the role an ad hoc agent should select depends both on its own capabilities and on the roles currently selected by the other team members. We formally define methods for evaluating the influence of the ad hoc agent's role selection on the team's utility, leading to an efficient calculation of the role that yields maximal team utility. In simple teamwork settings, we demonstrate that the optimal role assignment can be easily determined. However, in complex environments, where it is not trivial to determine the optimal role assignment, we examine empirically the best suited method for role assignment. Finally, we show that the methods we describe have a predictive nature. As such, once an appropriate assignment method is determined for a domain, it can be used successfully in new tasks that the team has not encountered before and for which only limited prior experience is available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPlan, Activity, and Intent Recognition - Papers from the 2011 AAAI Workshop, Technical Report
Pages17-24
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 AAAI Workshop - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 7 Aug 20117 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameAAAI Workshop - Technical Report
VolumeWS-11-16

Conference

Conference2011 AAAI Workshop
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period7/08/117/08/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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