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Aspects of planning support for human-agent coalitions

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This paper analyses aspects associated with the development of joint human-agent planning agents, showing that they can be implemented, in a unified way, via a constraint-based ontology and related functions. The constraints’ properties have already been used by several planning approaches as an option to improve their efficiency and expressiveness. This work demonstrates that such properties can also be employed to implement collaborative concepts, which are maintained transparent to the planning mechanisms. Furthermore, the use of constraints provides several facilities to the implementation of advanced mechanisms associated with the human interaction, as also demonstrated here.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Federal University of Paraiba, Cidade Universitária - CCEN, 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil

    Clauirton de Albuquerque Siebra & Natasha Correia Queiroz Lino

  2. Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, The University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK

    Clauirton de Albuquerque Siebra & Natasha Correia Queiroz Lino

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de Albuquerque Siebra, C., Lino, N.C.Q. Aspects of planning support for human-agent coalitions. J Braz Comp Soc 15, 41–55 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03194512

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Keywords

  • multiagent planning
  • collaboration
  • constraint-based ontology
  • human-agent interaction