We are developing and evaluating design concepts and principles to guide in the building of cooperative problem-solving systems. In particular, we are studying the design of cooperative systems for enroute flight planning. Our investigation involves a three-stage process, modeling human performance in existing environments, building cognitive artifacts, and studying the performance of people wo...

A strategy of cooperative path planning for a master-slave multiple robot system is presented in this paper. The path planning method is based on motion constraints between the end-effectors of cooperative robots. Cooperation motions have been classified into three types by relative motions between end-effectors of master and slave robots, which is concurrent cooperation, coupled synchronous co...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

This article deals with a human model of cooperative problem solving based on a psychological experiment. Our main goal is to improve the design of open multi-agent systems able to interact with humans. We aim at analyzing, modelling and simulating human capabilities of planning and interacting in a cooperative problem solving context. This paper goes on to present an original architecture call...

This paper discusses the application of the prototyping approach to investigating the requirements on strategies for cooperative planning and con ict resolution of independent agents by means of an example application: the strategic game \Scotland Yard". The strategies for coordinating the agents, which are parallel algorithms, are developed with a prototyping approach using ProSet-Linda. ProSe...

In the cellular network with relays, the mobile station can benefit from both coverage extension and capacity enhancement. However, the operation complexity increases as the number of relays grows up. Furthermore, in the cellular network with cooperative relays, it is even more complex because of an increased dimension of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) formed in the cooperative wireless transmis...

In this paper, we investigate the multiagent planning problem in the presence of cooperative actions and agents, which have their own goals and are willing to cooperate. To this end, we extend the action language A in [12] to represent and reason about plans with cooperative actions of an individual agent operating in a multiagent environment. We then use the proposed language to formalize the ...

We consider task planning problems where a number of noncooperative agents have to work on a joint problem. Such a problem consists in completing a set of interdependent, hierarchically ordered tasks. Each agent is assigned a subset of tasks to perform for which it has to construct a plan. Since the agents are non-cooperative, they insist on planning independently and do not want to revise thei...