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Integrating Intelligent Assistants into Human Teams (Joccasta) This project is no longer active. Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Joseph Andrew Giampapa (garof@andrew.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

In order to increase team decision making in the area of joint mission planning, we are incorporating intelligent software assistants into human teams. This Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) brings together the Software Agents Group at Carnegie Mellon University, the Software Engineering Institute's research on multimedia information delivery, the Performance Studies Team at the Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division, the University of Pittsburgh, and the NRL.

Our software assistants can anticipate the information needs of their human team members, prepare and communicate task information, adapt to changes in situation and changes to the capabilities of other team members, and effectively support team member mobility.

This research has implications for other types of planning teams that comprise multidisciplinary experts, including civilian emergency response, management, and single service military teams.

This project is sponsored by the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Constantine Domashnev	Robotics Engineer	dconst@rec.ri.cmu.edu
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Dirk Kalp	Senior Research Programmer/On Leave
	Matthias Klusch	Visitor
	Stefano Monti	Postdoctoral Fellow
	Anandeep S. Pannu	Project Supervisor
	Massimo Paolucci	Principal Research Programmer
	Terence Payne	Project Scientist
	Michael Rectenwald	Writer/Editor III
	Onn Shehory	Visiting Assistant Professor
	Katia Sycara	Research Professor	katia@cs.cmu.edu
	Martin Van Velsen	Visiting Scholar

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• RETSINA Agent Name Service Documentation
  M. Rectenwald, J.A. Giampapa, B.K. Langley, and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [337 KB] copyrighted

• The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study
  K. Sycara, J.A. Giampapa, B.K. Langley, and M. Paolucci
  Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena, Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omici, Jaelson Castro, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. LNCS 2603, July, 2003, pp. 232--250. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [270 KB], ps.gz [181 KB] copyrighted

• Team-Oriented Agent Coordination in the RETSINA Multi-Agent System
  J.A. Giampapa and K. Sycara
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [195 KB], ps.gz [157 KB] copyrighted

• Agent Interoperation Across Multagent System Boundaries
  J.A. Giampapa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036, USA, June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [153 KB], ps.gz [168 KB] copyrighted