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The Computer Journal Advance Access published online on June 24, 2009
The Computer Journal, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxp061
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Computer Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Agent Support for Policy-Driven Collaborative Mission Planning

Katia Sycara2, Timothy J. Norman2, Joseph A. Giampapa1, Martin J. Kollingbaum1,*, Chris Burnett2, Daniele Masato2, Mairi McCallum2 and Michael H. Strub3 4

1 Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
2 Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
3 DSTL, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JQ, UK

* Correspondig authour: mkolling{at}cs.cmu.edu

Received 4 October 2008; revised 17 April 2009

In this paper, we describe how agents can support collaborative planning within international coalitions, formed in an ad hoc fashion as a response to military and humanitarian crises. As these coalitions are formed rapidly and without much lead time or co-training, human planners may be required to observe a plethora of policies that direct their planning effort. In a series of experiments, we show how agents can support human planners, ease their cognitive burden by giving advice on the correct use of policies and catch possible violations. The experiments show that agents can effectively prevent policy violations with no significant extra cost.

Key Words: collaborative mission planning • decision support • agent aiding • policies • norms

4 On secondment from USARL.

Handling editor: Erol Gelenbe


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