Proactive Information Exchanges Based on the Awareness of Teammates’ Information Needs

Proactive Information Exchanges Based on the Awareness of Teammates’ Information Needs (2003)

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by John Yen , Xiaocong Fan , Richard A. Volz

Venue:	AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Communication Policies
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TITLE	Proactive Information Exchanges Based on the Awareness of Teammates’ Information Needs	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	John Yen	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Research Center for Team-based Agents; School of Information Sciences and Technology; Pennsylvania State University	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	University Park, PA16802	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Xiaocong Fan	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Research Center for Team-based Agents; School of Information Sciences and Technology; Pennsylvania State University	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	University Park, PA16802	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Richard A. Volz	user correction
ABSTRACT	The capabilities for agents in a team to anticipate information needs of teammates and proactively offer relevant information are highly desirable. However, such behaviors have not been fully prescribed by existing agent theories. We attempt to establish a theory about proactive information exchanges based on the SharedPlan framework and Cohen and Levesque’s formalization of communicative actions. We first formally specify two types of information needs. A new performative called P roInform is introduced by extending the semantics of Inform to include the speaker’s belief about the information needs of the addressee. For agents in a team containing subteams to achieve proactive information exchanges, we define the semantics of “subscribe” through the third party (e.g., a broker agent). We also show that proactive information exchanges using these communicative actions can be derived as assist behaviors from the theory. The framework not only serves as a formal specification for designing agent architectures, algorithms, and applications that support proactive information exchanges among agents in a team, but also offers opportunities for extending existing agent communication protocols to support proactive teamwork.	user correction
YEAR	2003	INFERENCE
VENUE	AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Agent Communication Languages and Communication Policies	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	22 found	ParsCit 1.0