The need for teamwork has grown significantly in today's organizations. Especially for online game communities, teamwork is an important means of online game players' engagement. This study aims to investigate the impacts of trust on players' teamwork with affective commitment and normative commitment as mediators. Furthermore, this research includes team experience as a moderator to compare th...

A highly productive team throughout an agile software development process is very instrumental in achieving project success. This research presents a system dynamics (SD) based approach to model agile software development teamwork productivity by analyzing productivity influence factors. Identification of main factors influencing productivity and how they impact agile teamwork are carried out t...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) must often see multiple providers dispersed across many care locations. To test whether teamwork (assessed with the bipartite clustering coefficient) among these physicians is a determinant of surgical outcomes, we examined national Medicare data from patients undergoing CABG. METHODS AND RESULTS Among Medicare beneficiarie...

Simulation techniques, tools and environments, agent cooperation 1. ABSTRACT In this paper we present a lightweight teamwork implementation through use of abstraction hierarchies. The basis of this implementation is ADAPT, which supports Autonomous Dynamic Agent Planning for Teamwork. ADAPT’s novelty stems from how it succinctly decomposes teamwork problems into two separate planners: a task ne...

Teamwork is a critical capability in multi-agent environments. Many such environments mandate that the agents and agent-teams must be persistent i.e., exist over long periods of time. Agents in such persistent teams are bound together by their long-term common interests and goals. This paper focuses on exible teamwork in such persistent teams. Unfortunately, while previous work has investigated...

This paper proposes a new approach to multi-agent systems leveraging from recent advances in networking and reinforcement learning to scale up teamwork based on joint intentions. In this approach, teamwork is subsumed by the coordination of learning agents. The intuition behind this approach is that successful coordination at the global level generates opportunities for teamwork interactions at...

Teams train by practicing basic interaction skills in order to develop a shared mental model between team members. A computer-based training system must have a model of teamwork to train a new team member to act as part of a team. This model of teamwork can be used to identify weaknesses in team interaction skills in the trainee. Existing multi-agent models for teamwork are limited in their abi...

The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of teamwork interventions that were carried out with the purpose of improving teamwork and team performance, using controlled experimental designs. A literature search returned 16,849 unique articles. The meta-analysis was ultimately conducted on 51 articles, comprising 72 (k) unique interventions, 194 effect sizes...

Adopting a historical perspective, this paper examines the ideological and philosophical antecedents of current popular management approaches which advocate programs of workplace empowerment that are enacted through the implementation of teamwork. These approaches frequently assume that a propensity toward teamwork is an essential characteristic of ‘human nature’. It is argued that this is an i...