1. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara1 DARPA CoABS Workshop Las Vegas, NV. TIE Final Group 1 Briefing Coordinator: Katia Sycara January 29, 1999

2. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara2 Discussion Topics 1. Participants in each TIE could get together to resolve technical issues –consensus –commiment 2. General Issues –TIEs visualization –There will be 3 TIEs conceptually connected through a story. Functionality of agents Agent activity Debugging/history

3. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara3 General Issues (continued) 3. Interaction of TIEs and GRID 4. Scientific Claims 5. Procedural Issues

4. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara4 GRID 1. Agreed with current view of GRID design of GITI/ISX of bottom up 2. Services eg. Interoperability agent RETSINA matchmaker OAA facilitator

5. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara5 GRID (continued) Other Useful Services for TIEs translation visualization support for different types of simulators networking infrastructure language/tools for best use of GRID services service description languages

6. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara6 Summary of Scientific Claims TIE 1 - “Helo Evac” Key Questions 1. Can multi-agents be programmed at the team-level? (Team-Oriented Programming) 2. What are the key requirements for ACLs in team setting? 3. What are the key requirements for distributed monitoring & diagnosis to provide (guaranteed) robustness?

7. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara7 Team-Oriented Programming TOP Short-Term Goals (March) Can TIE team be programmed by: –Organization Hierarchy –Team Procedures –Current team goals and plans –Automated coordination via teamcore? Long-Term Goals Extract general principles of “TOP” and build tools to facilitate “TOP”

8. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara8 Distributed Monitoring, Diagnosis & Recovery Short-Term Goals (March) Explore appropriateness of existing techniques in TEAMCORE for distributed monitoring, diagnosis & recovery Build primitives for TEAMCORE Agents to monitor domian-level agents Compile logs of failures Long-Term Goals Extract general principles from compiled logs, add to existing TEAMCORE techniques

9. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara9 ACLs for TEAMs Short-Term Goals (March) Explore shortcomings of existing ACLs for TEAMWORK Explore interoperation of OAA (Quickset) & TEAMCORE (KQML) Long-Term Investigate efficiency of semantics of ACL (particularly for teamwork) Development of semantic interpretation bridge between TEAMCORE and OAA

10. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara10 Scientific Claims Technical Challenges TIE 2 1. Coherent Communication –Webtrader brokers information sources Adriadne dynamically incorporates request “Addness in Kuwait for conference attendees” –Multiple translators glued together speech (MMM)  ML Menus 2. Control –Planner controls multiple simulated physical agents –Planner responds to outside events –Posting goals 3. Human in the loop

11. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara11 1. Coherent communication between two heterogeneous MAS 2. Functional substitutability of agents 3. “Agentification” of legacy systems 4. Adaptivity: –Interfaces –MAS organization –Single Agent 5. Collaboration –human-human –human-agent –MAS Scientific Claims Technical Challenges TIE 3

12. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara12 1. Interoperability a. Structure of interop agent Protocols of interop agent b. Interop services of the Grid? 2. Functional Agent Substitutability a. Languages and protocols for capability advertisement b. Resolving mismatches of substitutable agent tasking and results 3. “Amplification” a. Is wrapping best way? Scientific Claims - TIE 3

13. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara13 4. Adaptivity/Robustness a. Adaptive interface to user resources Organizational adaptivity through middle agents 5. Collaboration a. Human-Agent tasking of agents functional role allocation MAS dynamic team formation tradeoffs of different organizational structures Scientific Claims - TIE 3 (continued)

14. Las Vegas 1999Katia Sycara14 Procedural Issues 1. Increase frequency of telecons to 1 per week 2. Build Ties at GITI/ISX –set and commit to a date –install components –meet to rehearse –clarify audience