Supporting request acceptance with use policies

This paper deals with the problem of automating the contribution of resources owned by people to do work for others, whilst providing a means for owners of resources to maintain autonomy over how, when and to whom their resources are used with the specification of resource use policies. We give representations of requests for resource usage as a...

Context-Sensitive Sharedness Criteria for Teamwork (Extended Abstract)

Teamwork between humans and intelligent systems gains importance with the maturing of agent and robot technology. In the social sciences, sharedness of mental models is used to explain and understand teamwork. To use this concept for developing teams that include agents, we propose contextsensitive sharedness criteria. These criteria specify how...

Coactive Design: Designing Support for Interdependence in Joint Activity

Coactive Design is a new approach to address the increasingly sophisticated roles that people and robots play as the use of robots expands into new, complex domains. The approach is motivated by the desire for robots to perform less like teleoperated tools or independent automatons and more like interdependent teammates. In this article, we...

Preferences, Paths, Power, Goals and Norms

This paper seeks to address the question of preference alignment in normative systems. We represent detached obligations and goals as preferences over outcomes, and describe when deterministic behaviour will occur within a MAS under specific system instantiations. We then investigate what obligations an agent with so called normative power...

Goal-Based Explainable Security Certificate Requests

In crisis situations it is important that crisis response workers can quickly get access to the right information for the tasks they are required to undertake. A distinction can be made between getting the right information and having the rights to get that information. The first is an information filtering and relevance problem, the second is a...

Unreal Goal Bots

It remains a challenge with current state of the art technology to use BDI agents to control real-time, dynamic and complex environments. We report on our effort to connect the GOAL agent programming language to the real-time game UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. We focus in particular on the design of a suitable interface to manage agent-bot interaction...

Formalizing Organizational Constraints: A Semantic Approach (extended abstract)

Service Specification and Matchmaking using Description Logic (extended abstract)