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Abstract

In this paper, we describe, how agents can support collaborative planning within international coalitions, formed in an ad-hoc fashion as a response to military and humanitarian crises. As these coalitions are formed rapidly and without much lead time or co-training, human planners may be required to observe a plethora of policies that direct their planning effort. In a series of experiments, we show how agents can support human planners and ease their cognitive burden by giving advice on the correct use of policies and catch possible violations.

Keywords

coalitions, autonomous agent, normative reasoning, collaborative planning

Notes

Sponsor: Research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence and was accomplished under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001.

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Center for Integrated Manfacturing Decision Systems

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Advanced Agent - Robotics Technology Lab

Associated Project(s): IBM ITA: Human-Agent Teamwork Models

Number of pages: 13

Text Reference

Katia Sycara, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, and Michael H. Strub, "Agent Support for Policy-driven Collaborative Mission Planning," The Computer Journal, , August, 2009

BibTeX Reference

@article{Sycara_2009_6435,
   author = "Katia Sycara and Timothy J. Norman and Joseph Andrew Giampapa and Martin Kollingbaum and Christopher Burnett and Daniele Masato and Mairi McCallum and Michael H. Strub",
   title = "Agent Support for Policy-driven Collaborative Mission Planning",
   journal = "The Computer Journal",
   month = "August",
   year = "2009",
}

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