A model of empathy for artificial agent teamwork.

An interaction protocol for bidirectional deliberation on direct help in agent teamwork.

“…In a different approach, Dalvandi [2012] investigates the need for empathy among artificial agents and provides simulation results suggesting the behavioral advantages of incorporating the empathy-driven deliberation on helpful behavior in certain dy namic environments where rational deliberation is costly. This approach is inspired by the way living systems deliberate on helpful behavior in certain situations based on the notion of empathy.…”

A software framework for simulation studies of interaction models in agent teamwork.

“…The subject m a tter of those studies has been a new family of protocols, introduced in [Polajnar et al, 2011, 2012, Nalbandyan, 2011, Dalvandi, 2012, and further expanded in ongoing research.…”

“…A model of empathy as a mechanism for triggering help in agent team w ork is intro duced in [Polajnar et al, 2011] and [Dalvandi, 2012]. A simulator is built using the proposed framework in order to investigate w hether and how incorporating this model into agent teamwork can improve the team 's performance.…”

“…Teamwork of artificial agents has become a m ainstream research area in MAS [Aldewereld et al, 2004, Sycara and Sukthankar, 2006, Dunin-Keplicz and Verbrugge, 2011. Following the research on human teamwork (e.g., [Lepine et al, 2000]) which suggests th a t the capability and willingness of team members to provide direct assistance to each other are im portant factors of team success, there has been an increasing interest in the study of helpful behavior in agent teamwork [Yen et al, 2004, Fan et al, 2005, K am ar et al, 2009, Polajnar et al, 2011, 2012. The current framework is a design tool th a t is specifically tailored for agent interaction models for helpful behavior and facilitates their design and development.…”

“…One of the projects has been the study of th e m utual assistance protocol (MAP) [Nalbandyan, 2011[Nalbandyan, , P olajnar et al, 2012, which uses a bilateral approach for deciding w hether an agent should perform an action to help a team m ate. Another project has investigated how incorporating em pathy into team work of artificial agents, as a mechanism for triggering help, can improve th e team w ork performance [Polajnar et al, 2011, Dalvandi, 2012. Two other agent interaction pro tocols th a t use unilateral help approaches have also been modeled for com parative 6 studies of the MAP.…”