Time for teams!

A-teams for real-time operations

Rapid changes in the operating environments of electric utilities call for modifications in their operating strategies. This paper proposes two ways for making modifications. The first is the adoption of an organizational scheme, called an A-team (Asynchronous Team), for EMS (Energy Management System) software. A-teams are modular and extremely flexible. They have the potential for very high pe...

Teams for Teams

We are developing a theory for human control of robot teams based on considering how control varies across different task allocations. Our current work focuses on domains such as foraging in which robots perform largely independent tasks. The present study addresses the interaction between automation and organization of human teams in controlling large robot teams performing an Urban Search and...

So many teams, so little time: Time allocation matters in geographically dispersed teams

Geographically dispersed teams whose members do not allocate all of their time to a single team increasingly carry out knowledge-intensive work in multinational organizations. Taking an attention-based view of team design, we investigate the antecedents and consequences of member time allocation in a multi-level study of 2055 members of 285 teams in a large global corporation, usingmember surve...

Real-Time Cooperative Behavior for Tactical Mobile Robot Teams

Execution-time Communication Decisions for Coordination of Multi-agent Teams

MULTI-AGENT teams can be used to perform tasks that would be very difficult or impossible for single agents. Although such teams provide additional functionality and robustness over single-agent systems, they also present additional challenges, mainly due to the difficulty of coordinating multiple agents in the presence of uncertainty and partial observability. Agents in a multi-agent team must...