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Coordination is an essential ingredient for human-agent teamwork. It requires team members to share knowledge to establish common grounding and mutual awareness among them. This paper proposes a behavioral architecture C 2 BDI that enhances the knowledge sharing using natural language communication between team members. Collaborative conversation protocols and resource allocation mechanism have been defined that provide proactive behavior to agents for coordination. This architecture has been applied to a real scenario in a collaborative virtual environment for learning. The solution enables users to coordinate with other team members.
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Barange, M., Kabil, A., De Keukelaere, C., Chevaillier, P. (2014). Task-Oriented Conversational Behavior of Agents for Collaboration in Human-Agent Teamwork. In: Demazeau, Y., Zambonelli, F., Corchado, J.M., Bajo, J. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07551-8_3
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