A comprehensive review and a taxonomy proposal of team formation problems

J Juárez, C Santos, CA Brizuela - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
With a growing interest in high-performing work teams and how to form them, a new
computational challenge, denominated Team Formation Problem (TFP), has emerged. After …

Theories for learning with emerging technologies

T Anderson - Emerging technologies in distance education, 2010 - degruyter.com
While educational theory is often construed by graduate students as a necessary evil of little
practical use, and frequently required by professors and research committees, the value of …

Cooperating with unknown teammates in complex domains: A robot soccer case study of ad hoc teamwork

S Barrett, P Stone - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
Many scenarios require that robots work together as a team in order to effectively
accomplish their tasks. However, pre-coordinating these teams may not always be possible …

Group-oriented task allocation for crowdsourcing in social networks

J Jiang, B An, Y Jiang, C Zhang, Z Bu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous crowdsourcing studies often adopted the individual-oriented approach that
outsources a task to an individual worker or team formation-based approach that outsources …

[HTML][HTML] Weighted synergy graphs for effective team formation with heterogeneous ad hoc agents

S Liemhetcharat, M Veloso - Artificial Intelligence, 2014 - Elsevier
Previous approaches to select agents to form a team rely on single-agent capabilities, and
team performance is treated as a sum of such known capabilities. Motivated by complex …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-agent team formation: Diversity beats strength?

LS Marcolino, AX Jiang, M Tambe - IJCAI, 2013 - projects.iq.harvard.edu
Team formation is a critical step in deploying a multi-agent team. In some scenarios, agents
coordinate by voting continuously. When forming such teams, should we focus on the …

Team composition for perimeter defense with patrollers and defenders

D Shishika, J Paulos, MR Dorothy… - 2019 IEEE 58th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study team composition in the context of a multi-player pursuit-evasion game between
intruders and defenders. The game has been previously studied assuming full state …

A concise review on multiagent teams: contributions and research opportunities

E Andrejczuk, JA Rodriguez-Aguilar… - European Conference on …, 2016 - Springer
The composition and formation of effective teams is crucial for both companies, to assure
their competitiveness, and for a broad range of emerging applications exploiting multiagent …

Exploiting spatial locality and heterogeneity of agents for search and rescue teamwork

J Parker, E Nunes, J Godoy, M Gini - Journal of Field Robotics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We propose coordination mechanisms for multiple heterogeneous physical agents that
operate in city‐scale disaster scenarios, where they need to find and rescue people and …

[PDF][PDF] How to Form a Task-Oriented Robust Team.

T Okimoto, N Schwind, M Clement, T Ribeiro, K Inoue… - AAMAS, 2015 - researchgate.net
How to form a team for achieving a given set of tasks is an important issue in multi-agent
systems. Task-oriented team formation is the problem of selecting a group of agents, where …