A Role-Based Modeling for Agent Teams

This paper investigates teams of agent that cooperate towards achieving common goals. The concept of roles in a team is central to the paper. Agents act and coordinate with other agents depending on their roles. In dynamic environments, an agent may change the roles it plays over time. The coordination between agents is mainly obtained through shared mental states, communications and observations of actions of team members. We define the modeling of teams by using the notions of role-based plans and dynamic role assignment to develop a method of dynamically composing agent execution models as the agents take on different roles during the execution of a plan