The ABMIC Project
Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative
Collaboration
A Research Project under the DAGSI/AFRL Aerospace Research Program
ABMIC
Homepage (Wright State University)
Final
Report (WSU-CS-02-01)
Abstract
In the most basic sense, this research intends to examine the nature of
human collaboration with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the
cognitive processes involved. In the most practical sense, the research is to
build systems that facilitate human collaboration and to model on computers
the behavior that leads to successful cooperation. To study collaboration, we
will study a particular type of collaboration that is relevant to many
intelligent activities; that is, we will examine planning by teams of people
that are engaged with computer systems and vast amounts of information. One
of the most difficult tasks during such activity is to present to each person
just the right amount of information in the form best suited to their
particular piece of the team effort. To provide solutions to this problem, we
will experiment with mixed-initiative approaches that synthesize human and
machine decisions, case-based approaches that reuse past experience,
agent-based technologies that encapsulate specialized knowledge, and
cognitive systems engineering methods of user-modeling.
Goals and Objectives
The overall project goal is to investigate agent-based and case-based
frameworks for distributed collaborative planning using a goal-centered
approach. The focus of this proposal is on three main research objectives
associated with the main project goal:
- Framing collaboration as a distributed mixed-initiative planning
process
- Modeling users for human-centered information systems development
- Designing, implementing, and evaluating systems that support
collaborative planning.
The research will deliver a prototype computer system and user-interface
that supports intelligent collaboration.
Major Participants
- AFIT
- Dr. Scott DeLoach
- Dr. Timothy Jacobs
- AFRL/HECA
- Dr. Scott Brown
- Dr. Robert Eggleston
- Dr. Michael McNeese
- WSU
- Dr. Michael T. Cox (CS ) - PI
- Dr. Thomas C. Hartrum (CS)
- Dr. S. Narayanan (BHE)
- Graduate Students
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