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Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation

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Cooperative Information Agents III (CIA 1999)

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With growing opportunities for individually motivated agents to work collaboratively to satisfy shared goals, it becomes increasingly important to design agents that can make intelligent decisions in the context of commitments to group activities. In particular, agents need to be able to reconcile their intentions to do team-related actions with other, conflicting intentions. We present the SPIRE experimental system that allows the process of intention reconciliation in team contexts to be simulated and studied. SPIRE enables us to examine the influence of team norms and environmental factors on team members faced with conflicting intentions, as well as the effectiveness of different intention-reconciliation strategies. We discuss results from pilot experiments that confirm the reasonableness of our model of the problem and illustrate some of the issues involved, and we lay the groundwork for future experiments that will allow us to derive principles for designers of collaboration-capable agents.

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  1. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass & Barbara J. Grosz

  2. Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel, College Park, MD, 20712, USA

    Sarit Kraus

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  1. DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Onn M. Shehory

  3. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiss

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Sullivan, D.G., Glass, A., Grosz, B.J., Kraus, S. (1999). Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork: An Initial Empirical Investigation. In: Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. CIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48414-0_10

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