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The Conceptual Modelling of Dynamic Teams for Autonomous Systems

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Abstract

The concept of a ‘team’ is key in multi-agent decision-making applications such as for combat operations and disaster management. Although there are a number of team-oriented agent programming approaches, conceptual modelling of teams is not fully addressed. In this paper we present TDF-T, an extension of the TDF agent design methodology that addresses the requirements of team oriented modelling; in particular, team hierarchies, dynamic team formation, and team coordination. These concepts encapsulate team tactical behaviour which is essential to our user community who need to build and deploy complex team-based simulation applications. We show positive results in a user study that evaluates comprehension and maintainability of TDF-T models.

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  • Autonomous systems
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Organisational modelling
  • Team modelling

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  1. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Rick Evertsz & John Thangarajah

  2. Defence Science and Technology Group, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael Papasimeon

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  3. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Hui Ma

  4. Valencia University of Technology, Valencia, Spain

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Evertsz, R., Thangarajah, J., Papasimeon, M. (2017). The Conceptual Modelling of Dynamic Teams for Autonomous Systems. In: Mayr, H., Guizzardi, G., Ma, H., Pastor, O. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_25

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