Decision-Making in the Context of Commitments to Team Activity

在对团队活动的承诺的背景下做出决策

• 批准号: 9978343
• 负责人: Barbara Grosz
• 金额: $ 25.05万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9978343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Decision; Making; Context; Commitments; Team

This project aims to provide the scientific basis for more complete theories of collaboration and to develop mechanisms for constructing collaboration-capable software agents. It is an inter-institutional collaborative research project of Harvard University and the University of Maryland. The research focuses on problems of constructing agents able to manage their plans and intentions in multi-agent contexts and to make decisions in the context of team activities.The proposed research comprises three activities: empirical investigations of different policies governing commitment to group activities and their influence on individual and group behavior and outcomes; development of a formal theory that may be used to address abstractly questions of intention reconciliation and to identify stable strategies and effective policies for it; and construction of more sophisticated collaboration-capable software agents. Four strands of previous research support this effort: specification of a formal model of collaboration, construction of prototype collaboration-capable systems, specification of models of negotiation, and development of a simulation framework for empirically investigating decision-making in the context of group activities.The project contributes to fundamental research in collaboration, to the development of collaboration-capable software agents and collaborative human-computer interface systems, and to the training of undergraduate and graduate students.

本计画的目的是提供更完整的合作理论的科学基础，并发展建构具有合作能力的软体代理人的机制。 它是哈佛大学和马里兰州大学的一个跨机构合作研究项目。 本研究的重点是构建能够在多主体环境中管理其计划和意图以及在团队活动环境中做出决策的主体的问题，所提出的研究包括三个方面：实证研究不同的群体活动承诺政策及其对个体和群体行为和结果的影响;发展一个正式的理论，可用于解决抽象的问题，意图和解，并确定稳定的战略和有效的政策，它和建设更复杂的协作能力的软件代理。 以前的四项研究支持这一努力：协作的正式模型的规范，原型协作能力系统的构建，谈判模型的规范，以及在群体活动背景下实证调查决策的模拟框架的开发。该项目有助于协作的基础研究，开发具有协作能力的软件代理和协作人机界面系统，以及培训本科生和研究生。