An Agent’s Perspective of a Team in a Dynamic World

In this paper, we propose an Attitude Based Team Model (ABTM) in which we argue that team members’ perspective or attitude is a very important attribute for the performance of a team. Our team model presents team as a collective abstract attitude, in which is embedded a novel way of solving problems and conflicts in our domain. We argue that this collective attitude is further decomposed into the individual attitudes of the agents towards various team attributes (Team definition, team methods ... etc.). We then evaluate the different types of the agent teams in a simulated fire world using teams with and without different types of attitudes. The application and implementation of this model to a virtual fire world has revealed a promising prospect in developing team agents.