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Communicating with Unknown Teammates.
Samuel Barrett, Noa
Agmon, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus,
and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First European Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, August 2014.
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Past research has investigated a number of methods for coordinating teams of agents, but with the growing number of sources of agents, it is likely that agents will encounter teammates that do not share their coordination methods. Therefore, it is desirable for agents to adapt to these teammates, forming an effective ad hoc team. Past ad hoc teamwork research has focused on cases where the agents do not directly communicate. However when teammates do communicate, it can provide a valuable channel for coordination. Therefore, this paper tackles the problem of communication in ad hoc teams, introducing a minimal version of the multiagent, multi-armed bandit problem with limited communication between the agents. The theoretical results in this paper prove that this problem setting can be solved in polynomial time when the agent knows the set of possible teammates. Furthermore, the empirical results show that an agent can cooperate with a variety of teammates following unknown behaviors even when its models of these teammates are imperfect.
@InProceedings{ECAI14-Barrett,
author = {Samuel Barrett and Noa Agmon and Noam Hazon and Sarit Kraus and Peter Stone},
title = {Communicating with Unknown Teammates},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
location = {Prague, Czech Republic},
month = {August},
year = {2014},
abstract={
Past research has investigated a number of methods for coordinating teams of
agents, but with the growing number of sources of agents, it is likely that
agents will encounter teammates that do not share their coordination
methods. Therefore, it is desirable for agents to adapt to these
teammates, forming an effective ad hoc team. Past ad hoc teamwork research
has focused on cases where the agents do not directly communicate. However
when teammates do communicate, it can provide a valuable channel for
coordination. Therefore, this paper tackles the problem of communication
in ad hoc teams, introducing a minimal version of the multiagent,
multi-armed bandit problem with limited communication between the agents.
The theoretical results in this paper prove that this problem setting can
be solved in polynomial time when the agent knows the set of possible
teammates. Furthermore, the empirical results show that an agent can
cooperate with a variety of teammates following unknown behaviors even when
its models of these teammates are imperfect.
}
}
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