@conference {1511212,
	title = {Agent architectures for flexible, practical teamwork },
	booktitle = {National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97)	},
	year = {1997},
	abstract = {Teamwork in complex, dynamic, multi-agent domains mandates highly flexible coordination and communication. Simply fitting individual agents with precomputed coordination
plans will not do, for their inflexibility can cause severe
failures in teamwork, and their domain-specificity hinders
reusability. Our central hypothesis is that the key to such
flexibility and reusability is agent architectures with integrated teamwork capabilities. This fundamental shift in
agent architectures is illustrated via an implemented candidate: STEAM. While STEAM is founded on the joint
intentions theory, practical operationalization has required it
to integrate several key novel concepts: (i) team synchronization to establish joint intentions; (ii) constructs for monitoring joint intentions and repair; and (iii) decision-theoretic
communication selectivity (to pragmatically extend the joint
intentions theory). Applications in three different complex
domains, with empirical results, are presented.1},
	author = {Tambe, Milind}
}
