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Delegation in Human-Machine Teaming: Progress, Challenges and Prospects

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This paper describes DASH: Delegation to Autonomous Systems within Human-machine teams. The purpose of DASH is to combine ideas from recent progress in human machine interaction to confront current and prospected challenges of distributed delegation and meaningful human control. We describe the design considerations of DASH and illustrate how delegation using plays, a web of interaction modules, and interdependency graphs are used in the context of a military human-robot team.

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van Diggelen, J., Barnhoorn, J., Post, R., Sijs, J., van der Stap, N., van der Waa, J. (2021). Delegation in Human-Machine Teaming: Progress, Challenges and Prospects. In: Russo, D., Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Di Bucchianico, G., Taiar, R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2021. IHSI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68017-6_2

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