학술논문

Decision-theoretic proactive communication in multiagent teamwork
Document Type
Conference
Source
2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics System, Man and Cybernetics Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on. 4:3903-3908 Vol. 4 2005
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Teamwork
Production
Computer science
Timing
Communication effectiveness
Statistical analysis
Multiagent systems
Decision theory
Complexity theory
Aircraft
Multi-agent systems
agent communication
teamwork
decision theory
Language
ISSN
1062-922X
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.