Adaptive Agent Integration Architectures for Heterogeneous Team Members

Withthe proliferationof software agents and smart hardware devices there is a growing realization that large-scale problems can be addressed by integration of such standalone systems. This has led to an increasing interest in integration architectures that enable a heterogeneous variety of agentsandhumansto work together. These agentsand humans differ in their capabilities, preferences, the level of autonomy they are willing to grant the integration architecture and their information requirements and performance. The challenge in coordinating such adiverse agent set is that potentially a large number of domain-specific and agentspecific coordination plans may be required. We present a novel two-tiered approach to address this coordination problem. We first provide the integration architecture with general purpose teamwork coordination capabilities, but then enable adaptation of such capabilities for the needs or requirements of specific individuals. A key novel aspect of this adaptati...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICMAS
• Keywords: Agent Integration Architecture, ICMAS 2000, Integration Architecture, Intelligent Agents, Teamwork Coordination Capabilities