Decision-theoretic proactive communication in multi-agent teamwork Conference Paper

abstract

• Despite the significant progress in multi-agent communication decision, existing research does not address two important issues: 1) how to optimize timing and currency of communication when dealing with dynamically changing information, and 2) what kinds of communication decision interdependency exist in a team and how this interdependency impacts a single agent's communication decision. To provide a more comprehensive solution to the communication problem, we present a new model, DTPC (Decision-Theoretic Proactive Communication), which uses statistical analysis of information production and need of team members and a dynamic decision-theoretic determination of communication policies. We show experimentally how DTPC decreases communication load while improving performance of distributed teamwork. 2005 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

authors

• Ioerger, Thomas

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS, VOL 1-4, PROCEEDINGS

author list (cited authors)

• Zhang, Y., Ioerger, T. R., & Volz, R. A.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Zhang, Y||Ioerger, TR||Volz, RA

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Conference proceedings / IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics  Journal

keywords

• Agent Communication
• Decision Theory
• Multi-agent Systems
• Teamwork

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/icsmc.2005.1571755

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-7803-9298-1

start page

• 3903

end page

• 3908

volume

• 4

URL

• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10498