@conference {1510350,
	title = {Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing key teamwork theories and models},
	booktitle = {First Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Conference (AAMAS)},
	year = {2002},
	abstract = {Despite the significant progress in multiagent teamwork, existing research
does not address the optimality of its prescriptions nor the complexity of the
teamwork problem. Thus, we cannot determine whether the assumptions
and approximations made by a particular theory gain enough efficiency
to justify the losses in overall performance. To provide a tool for evaluating this tradeoff, we present a unified framework, the COMmunicative
Multiagent Team Decision Problem (COM-MTDP) model, which is general enough to subsume many existing models of multiagent systems. We
analyze use the COM-MTDP model to provide a breakdown of the computational complexity of constructing optimal teams under problem domains
divided along the dimensions of observability and communication cost. We
then exploit the COM-MTDP{\textquoteright}s ability to encode existing teamwork theories
and models to encode two instantiations of joint intentions theory, including STEAM. We then derive a domain-independent criterion for optimal
communication and provide a comparative analysis of the two joint intentions instantiations. We have implemented a reusable, domain-independent
software package based COM-MTDPs to analyze teamwork coordination
strategies, and we demonstrate its use by encoding and evaluating the two
joint intentions strategies within an example domain.},
	author = {D. V. Pynadath and Tambe, Milind}
}
