Title
Conflicts in teamwork: hybrids to the rescue
Abstract
Today within the AAMAS community, we see at least four competing approaches to building multiagent systems: belief-desire-intention (BDI), distributed constraint optimization (DCOP), distributed POMDPs, and auctions or game-theoretic approaches. While there is exciting progress within each approach, there is a lack of cross-cutting research. This paper highlights hybrid approaches for multiagent teamwork. In particular, for the past decade, the TEAMCORE research group has focused on building agent teams in complex, dynamic domains. While our early work was inspired by BDI, we will present an overview of recent research that uses DCOPs and distributed POMDPs in building agent teams. While DCOP and distributed POMDP algorithms provide promising results, hybrid approaches help us address problems of scalability and expressiveness. For example, in the BDI-POMDP hybrid approach, BDI team plans are exploited to improve POMDP tractability, and POMDPs improve BDI team plan performance. We present some recent results from applying this approach in a Disaster Rescue simulation domain being developed with help from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1082473.1082474
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
cross-cutting research,hybrid approach,teamcore research group,bdi-pomdp hybrid approach,agent team,bdi team plan,pomdp algorithm,game-theoretic approach,bdi team plan performance,recent research,pomdp,complex dynamics,game theory,bdi
Teamwork,Partially observable Markov decision process,Computer science,Knowledge management,Multi-agent system,Common value auction,Game theory,Distributed constraint optimization,Management science,Scalability,Distributed computing,Building agent
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-093-0
19
0.98
References 
Authors
32
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Milind Tambe16008522.25
E. Bowring2351.98
H. Jung3190.98
G. Kaminka4190.98
R. Maheswaran5190.98
Janusz Marecki668549.06
P. J. Modi7190.98
R. Nair8190.98
S. Okamoto9190.98
J. P. Pearce10190.98
P. Paruchuri11190.98
David V. Pynadath121556130.56
P. Scerri13190.98
N. Schurr14190.98
P. Varakantham15190.98