Task Decomposition, Dynamic Role Assignment, and Low-Bandwidth Communication for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork

Multi-agent domains consisting of teams of agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment offer challengingresearch opportunities. In this article, we introduce periodic team synchronization (PTS) domains as time-critical environments in which agents act autonomouslywith low communication, but in which they can periodically synchronize in a full-communication setting. The two main contributions of this article are a flexible team agent structure and a method for inter-agent communication in domains with unreliable, single-channel, low-bandwidth communication. First, the novel team agent structure allows agents to capture and reason about team agreements. We achieve collaboration between

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1999
• Where: AI
• Authors: Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso
• Keywords: Adversarial Environment Offer, AI 1999, Artificial Intelligence, Team, Team Agent Structure