A Formal Graphical Language of Interdependence in Teamwork

Changyun Wei, Koen V. Hendriks, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Catholijn Jonker

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Abstract

Agents in teamwork may be highly interdependent on each other, the awareness of interdependence relationships is an important requirement for designing and consequently implementing a multi-agent system. In this work, we propose a formal graphical and domain-independent language that can facilitate the identification of comprehensive interdependences among the agents in teamwork. Moreover, a formal semantics is also introduced to precisely express and explain the properties of a graphical structure. The novel feature of the graphical language is that it complements the Interdependence Analysis Color Scheme in a way that explicitly models negative influences and, in addition, provides a visual-communication aid for developers. To demonstrate the applicability and sufficiency of the graphical language in a variety of domains, our case studies include a multi-robot scenario and a human-robot scenario.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-34
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume34
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019

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Keywords

  • Intelligent systems
  • Logic gates
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Reliability
  • Solids
  • Teamwork
  • Unified modeling language

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