On Proactive Helping Behaviors In Teamwork Conference Paper

abstract

• Teamwork has become increasingly important in diverse disciplines. Cognitive studies on teamwork have shown that team members in an effective team often have mutual expectations based on their shared mental models and proactively offer assistance to each other. We present a formal model called Role-Based Proactive Helping Behaviors (RoB-PHB) to enable proactive assistance among (sub)teams. Through RoB-PHB, agents can dynamically identify others ' help needs and provide helps by a course of actions on the fly. We have designed algorithms to implement our RoB-PHB formalism in a teamwork architecture called Role-Based Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (RoB-CAST). Our experiments on RoB-CAST have shown that the team with proactive helping behavior achieved better team performance.

authors

• Ioerger, Thomas

published proceedings

• ICAI '05: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VOLS 1 AND 2

author list (cited authors)

• Cao, S., Volz, A., Ioerger, T. R., & Miller, M. S.

complete list of authors

• Cao, S||Volz, A||Ioerger, TR||Miller, MS

editor list (cited editors)

• Arabnia, H. R., & Joshua, R.

publication date

• December 2005

publisher

• CSREA Press  Publisher

keywords

• Helping Behavior
• Role-based Shared Mental Model
• Teamwork

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 1-932415-68-8

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781932415674

start page

• 974

end page

• 980

volume

• 2

URL

• http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/icai2005-2.html