Abstract

The rapid growth in research and development of agentbased software systems has led to concerns about how human users will control the activities of teams of agents that must actively collaborate. We believe that practical multi-agent systems will often be comprised of small teams of heterogeneous agents, under direct supervision by users acting as “team leaders”. We are developing an environment for investigating mixed-initiative techniques for controlling small to medium-sized groups of agents as coordinated teams. This environment will be used to explore mixed-initiative approaches to planning for the activities of agent teams, and managing them during execution.

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