A mutual assistance protocol for agent teamwork.

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

“…The M utual Assistance Protocol (MAP) [Nalbandyan, 2011, Polajnar et al, 2012 has been specifically designed for helpful behavior in agent teamwork, distinguished by its distributed deliberation approach. MAP provides a mechanism for helpful behavior by enabling agents in a team to directly assist each other.…”

“…Our simulation experiments use the same parameter space as previous studies of MAP [Nalbandyan, 2011, Polajnar et al, 2012, Nalbandyan et al, 2013 In every simulation experiment for evaluating BIAMAP, the parameters th a t are kept constant have these standard values.…”

“…Agent interaction protocols specify interactive behavior of individual agents dealing with each other. Nalbandyan [2011] and Polajnar et al [2012] introduce the M utual Assis tance Protocol (MAP), with its subsequent elaboration in [Nalbandyan et al, 2013], which specifies a direct help mechanism for an agent team with heterogeneous skill profiles, situated in a dynamically changing environment. The mechanism is based on a bilateral distributed agreement in which both requester and helper agents jointly decide on performing a help act, in contrast with unilateral approaches as in [Ka-mar et al, 2009], in which only one side of the help transaction makes the decision.…”

“…In summary, Nalbandyan [2011] and Polajnar et al [2012] introduce MAP as a better performing interaction protocol in comparison to the unilateral protocols in situations when the communication costs are relatively low compared to the actions costs. RIAMAP and HIAMAP are introduced in [Nalbandyan et al, 2013] as two ad vanced variations of MAP, which outperform the basic MAP version and demonstrate complementary behaviors over the param eter space.…”

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

“…The insights concerning th e absence of suitably flexible simulation tools for AIP design in the domain of agent teamwork, and the need to develop a new software framework for th a t purpose, have developed gradually in th e course of our studies of interaction protocols for helpful behavior in agent teamwork at th e University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) [Polajnar et al, 2011, Nalbandyan, 2011, Dal vandi, 2012, Polajnar et al, 2012. D uring my participation in th e ongoing MAS research a t UNBC, I have examined and evaluated th e development of A IPs for agent teamwork, and have identified the requirem ents for developing a design tool to facili ta te their design and study.…”