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What is Ad Hoc Teams

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
A group of people that are brought together to achieve common goals for the duration of the task but who lack the experience of training together as a team.
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Communications for Agent-Based Human Team Support
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA), Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Joseph A. Giampapa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), and Christopher Burnett (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch012
Abstract
This chapter discusses the problem of agent aiding of ad-hoc, decentralized human teams so as to improve team performance on time-stressed group tasks. To see how human teams rise to the challenge, we analyze the communication patterns of teams performing a collaborative search task that recreates some of the cognitive difficulties faced by teams during search and rescue operations. Our experiments show that the communication patterns of successful decentralized ad-hoc teams performing a version of the task that requires tight coordination differ both from the teams that are less successful at task completion and from teams performing a loosely coupled version of the same task. We conclude by discussing: (1) what lessons can be derived, from observing humans, to facilitate the development of agents to support ad-hoc, decentralized teams, and (2) where can intelligent agents be inserted into human teams to improve the humans’ performance.
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