@conference {1510580,
	title = {Don{\textquoteright}t cancel my Barcelona trip: Adjusting the autonomy of agent proxies in human organizations },
	booktitle = {AAAI Fall Symposium on Socially Intelligent Agents --- the human in the loop},
	year = {2000},
	abstract = {
Teamwork is a critical capability in multiagent environments Many such en
vironments mandate that the agents and agentteams must be persistent ie exist over long periods of time Agents in such persistent teams are bound together by
their longterm common interests and goals
This paper focuses on exible teamwork in such persistent teams Unfortunately while previous work has investigated exible teamwork persistent teams remain
unexplored For exible teamwork one promising approach that has emerged is
modelbased ie providing agents with general models of teamwork that explicitly
specify their commitments in teamwork Such models enable agents to autonomously
reason about coordination Unfortunately for persistent teams such models may
lead to coordination and communication actions that while locally optimal are highly problematic for the teams longterm goals We present a decisiontheoretic
technique based on Markov decision processes to enable persistent teams to over come such limitations of the modelbased approach In particular agents reason
about expected team utilities of future team states that are pro jected to result from
actions recommended by the teamwork model as well as lowercost or highercost variations on these actions To accomodate realtime constraints this reasoning is
done in an anytime fashion Implemented examples from an analytic search tree
and some realworld domains are presented.},
	author = {Paul Scerri and Tambe, Milind and H. Lee and D. V. Pynadath}
}
