[Swarm-Modelling] CFP: Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop

[Steve Railsback]

(Forwarding this announcement from: Maarten Sierhuis 
<address@hidden>

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop
Co-located with the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot 
Interaction (HRI'09)
San Diego, CA, Marriott La Jolla

http://web.me.com/samuel.h.bradshaw/HART/

Workshop: March 10, 2009

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Overview. Teamwork has become the most widely accepted metaphor for 
describing the nature of multi-robot and multi-agent cooperation. The 
key concept usually involves some notion of communication, shared 
knowledge, goals, and activities that function as the glue that binds 
team members together. By virtue of a largely reusable explicit formal 
model of shared intentions, team members attempt to manage general 
responsibilities and commitments to each other in a coherent fashion 
that both enhances performance and facilitates recovery when 
unanticipated problems arise. For example, a common occurrence in joint 
action is when one team member fails and can no longer perform in its 
role. A general teamwork model might entail that each team member be 
notified under appropriate conditions of the failure, thus reducing the 
requirement for special-purpose exception handling mechanisms for each 
possible failure mode.

Whereas early research on teamwork focused mainly on interaction within 
groups of autonomous agents or robots, there is a growing interest in 
better accounting for the human dimension. Unlike autonomous systems 
designed primarily to take humans out of the loop, the future lies in 
supporting people, agents, and robots working together in teams in close 
and continuous human-robot interaction.

What kinds of foundational software systems are needed in support of 
human-robot teams? The multi-agent systems community has been focusing 
on how distributed software agents can jointly perform tasks. For 
software agents and robots to participate in teamwork alongside people 
in carrying out complex real-world tasks, they must have some of the 
capabilities that enable natural and effective teamwork among groups of 
people. Just as important, developers of such systems need tools and 
methodologies to assure that such systems will work together reliably 
and safely, even when they are designed independently and operated with 
reduced human oversight.

Program. Participation in the program is by invitation only. Selected 
presentations may be turned into chapters for a published volume.

Participation. There is no cost for participation. The workshop is open 
to all interested parties though, due to limited seating, we may not be 
able to honor not all requests.

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Contact:
Maarten Sierhuis (NASA Ames)
address@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/msierhuis/Menu8.html

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (IHMC)
address@hidden
http://www.ihmc.us/users/user.php?UserID=jbradshaw

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 Dr. ing. Maarten Sierhuis                 Carnegie Mellon University 
Silicon Valley
 Senior Systems Scientist                               Mail Stop B269-1
 Adjunct Professor CMU SV NASA Ames Research Center
 Visiting Professor, MMI group, TUD            Moffett Field, CA 94035
 Human-Centered Computing

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 Phone: (650) 604-4917 

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