This paper describes the key system components of a team of three tractors in a peat moss harvesting operation. The behavior and actions of the tractors were designed to mimic manual harvest operations while maintaining a safe operating environment. To accomplish this objective, each of the three tractors was equipped with a bolt-on automation package, and a human operator (team leader) was giv...

F. Paganelli, M.A. Janssen, R. M. Lopes, E. Stofan, B. Stiles, R. West, L. Roth, S.D. Wall, R.D. Lorenz, J.I. Lunine, R.L. Kirk,L. Soderblom, C. Elachi, and the Radar Team, 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109. U.S.A. ([email protected]), Proxemy Research, Bowie, RADAR Team Leader, MD 20715, U.S.A., Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Univer...

Many organizations are using virtual teams to meet the increasing time and quality expectations of contemporary marketplaces. While virtual teams present advantages for cost control, access to expertise, and serving markets, they also engender practical challenges as a result of the geographic and temporal distribution of members. Previous research has suggested several factors that are critica...

F. Paganelli, Jakob van Zyl, M.A. Janssen, B. Stiles, R. West, R. M. Lopes, E. Stofan, P. Callahan, L. Roth, S.D. Wall, T.G. Farr, C. Elachi, R.D. Lorenz, L. Soderblom, and the Radar Team, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109. U.S.A. ([email protected]), Proxemy Research, Bowie, MD 20715, U.S.A., RADAR Team Leader, Lunar and Planetary Labo...

Narcissists often pursue leadership and are selected for leadership positions by others. At the same time, they act in their own best interest, putting the needs and interests of others at risk. While theoretical arguments clearly link narcissism and leadership, the question whether leader narcissism is good or bad for organizations and their members remains unanswered. Narcissism seems to have...

Leadership positions are still stereotyped as masculine, especially in male-dominated fields (e.g., engineering). So how do gender stereotypes affect the evaluation of leaders and team cohesiveness in the process of team development? In our study participants worked in 45 small teams (4-5 members). Each team was headed by either a female or male leader, so that 45 leaders (33% women) supervised...

Effort estimation (EE) is crucial for planning software projects since it contributes to delivery goals. Nevertheless, even in agile methodologies, EE a complex process due environmental and structural factors surrounding the interaction between leader development team. To simplify EE, companies prefer insourcing with mature team that provides resources. We model as leader-follower game underst...

 Examining the content and function of interruptions reveals that assistance is needed to manage Overhead interruptions often initiated during Indirect Care and directed towards the leader to complete tasks unrelated to the work process and their role and responsibility to the team.  Nearly a quarter of all interruptions are Overhead interruptions (i.e., finding clinicians to relay informatio...

Although a tremendous amount of research in the last decade has begun to disentangle interaction factors and performance outcomes associated with virtual teams, significant gaps still exist in our understanding, particularly in terms of virtual team leadership. Shared leadership may be particularly important to virtual teams, where team members’ separation from the leader and from one another m...

Most often situated multi-agent simulations, of which platform-games are an example, uses reactive agents. This approach has limitations as soon as complex behaviours are desired. For these reasons we propose an approach using cognitive agents. They have knowledge, objectives and are able to build plans in order to achieve their goals and then execute them. In this paper we particularly address...