FROM ROLES TO TEAMWORK: A FRAMEWORK AND ARCHITECTURE
Title:
FROM ROLES TO TEAMWORK: A FRAMEWORK AND ARCHITECTURE
Author:
Padgham, Simon Ch'N G Lin
Appeared in:
Applied artificial intelligence
Paging:
Volume 12 (1998) nr. 2-3 pages 211-231
Year:
1998-01-01
Contents:
Teamwork requires organization, strategies, and coordination. The design of a multiagent system should support these conceptual properties for constructing effective teams. The advantage of a teamwork approach is the reduction in complexity of the task through distribution of responsibilities, resulting in better utilization of resources, robust behaviors, and a greater variety of behaviors against competitors. In this article a framework for building teams of responsible agents using roles, responsibilities, and strategies is described. Its application to the domain of soccer is used to design a high-performance team of soccer agents. The architecture for these agents utilizes a reactive planning system with support for teamwork. The team of soccer agents will be tested in a series of competitions against other teams in the real-time soccer simulator proposed for Robocup-97, which provides an uncertain, resource bounded world.
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