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SharedPlans is an agent teamwork model that provides a formalization of the conditions under which a group of agents has a collaborative plan. This paper describes a general framework for implementing SharedPlans theory that addresses the computational issues of team formation, group plan elaboration and plan execution, involving coordination, communication and monitoring. The framework includes a team-oriented programming language for specifying recipes for SharedPlans, and an extension to a BDI architecture with several meta-plans for interpreting the plan language. We indicate how the formal requirements for the establishment of SharedPlans are fulfilled within the framework.
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Nguyen, M.H., Wobcke, W. (2006). A Flexible Framework for SharedPlans. In: Sattar, A., Kang, Bh. (eds) AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941439_43
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