Making Friends on the Fly: Advances in Ad Hoc Teamwork

• Main Author: Barrett, Samuel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 603
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Game theory.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Computational intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computational Intelligence.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Robotics and Automation.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book is devoted to the encounter and interaction of agents such as robots with other agents and describes how they cooperate with their previously unknown teammates, forming an Ad Hoc team. It presents a new algorithm, PLASTIC, that allows agents to quickly adapt to new teammates by reusing kno...