TY - JOUR
T1 - Agents with shared mental models for enhancing team decision makings
AU - Yen, John
AU - Fan, Xiaocong
AU - Sun, Shuang
AU - Hanratty, Timothy
AU - Dumer, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by AFOSR MURI grant no. F49620-00-1-0326 and Army Research Office grant no. DAAD19-01-1-0504. We would like to thank Dr. Richard A. Volz, Dr. Tom Ioerger, Mike Miller and the rest of the MURI research team at Texas A&M University for their significant contributions in designing and implementing the CAST agent architecture.
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams, a team-oriented agent architecture, Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (CAST), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information needs of teammates and help them with their information needs proactively and effectively. In this paper, we extend CAST with a decision-making module. Through two sets of experiments in a simulated battlefield, we evaluate the effectiveness of the decision-theoretic proactive communication strategy in improving team performance, and the effectiveness of information fusion as an approach to alleviating the information overload problem faced by distributed decision makers.
AB - Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams, a team-oriented agent architecture, Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (CAST), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information needs of teammates and help them with their information needs proactively and effectively. In this paper, we extend CAST with a decision-making module. Through two sets of experiments in a simulated battlefield, we evaluate the effectiveness of the decision-theoretic proactive communication strategy in improving team performance, and the effectiveness of information fusion as an approach to alleviating the information overload problem faced by distributed decision makers.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.008
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32544452877
VL - 41
SP - 634
EP - 653
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
SN - 0167-9236
IS - 3
ER -