Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining agent teamwork theory to explain how agents should act together as a team and in developing programming frameworks to simulate team coordinations in software environment. With the advent of ubiquitous computing technology, agent teamwork research will be pushed to its limit, facing...

Since the ooside rule was adopted in RoboCup-98, many teams without teamwork ability got ooside penalty many times in their matches. Those teams who have dribble skill won, because most of other teams have not eecient defence strategy. In this paper, we consider an ee-cient teamwork-based defence method called line defence. To achieve the line defence, a set of basic teamwork abilities (includi...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based teamwork trainings are considered a powerful training method to advance teamwork, which becomes more relevant in medical education. The measurement of teamwork is of high importance and several instruments have been developed for various medical domains to meet this need. To our knowledge, no theoretically-based and easy-to-use measurement instrument has been publish...

The aim of this study was to determine the level of employee involvement and extent of teamwork effectiveness among employees working in the Jordanian glass and ceramic industries listed in Amman Stock Exchange in Jordan. The study aimed also at examining the significant effect of employee empowerment on teamwork effectiveness. Furthermore, the study investigated the significant differences tha...

A postal questionnaire survey of 10 022 staff nurses in 32 hospitals in England was undertaken to explore the relationship between interdisciplinary teamwork and nurse autonomy on patient and nurse outcomes and nurse assessed quality of care. The key variables of nursing autonomy, control over resources, relationship with doctors, emotional exhaustion, and decision making were found to correlat...

Proactive Communication in Multi-Agent Teamwork. (December 2005)Yu Zhang, B.S.; M.S., Central South University, ChinaChair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Richard A. Volz Sharing common goals and acting cooperatively are critical issues in multi-agent teamwork. Traditionally, agents cooperate with each other by inferring others'actions implicitly or explicitly, based on established n...

PURPOSE Teaching interprofessional (IP) teamwork skills is a goal of interprofessional education. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between IP teamwork skills, attitudes and clinical outcomes in a simulated clinical setting. METHODS One hundred-twenty health professions students (medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant) worked in interprofessional teams to manage a "pa...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by conflicts in agents’ beliefs, plans and actions. Despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolution has remained largely unaddressed. This paper presents a system called CONSA, to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. The key insight ...

In technology enhanced language learning, many pedagogical activities involve students in online discussion such as synchronous chat, in order to help them practice their language skills. Besides developing the language competency of students, it is also crucial to nurture their teamwork competencies for today’s global and complex environment. Language communication is an important glue of team...

The concept of creating autonomous agents capable of exhibiting ad hoc teamwork was recently introduced as a challenge to the AI, and specifically to the multiagent systems community. An agent capable of ad hoc teamwork is one that can effectively cooperate with multiple potential teammates on a set of collaborative tasks. Previous research has investigated theoretically optimal ad hoc teamwork...