Teaming humans and agents in a simulated world

Abstract

Previous research on human-machine teaming [1] argued that a formal specification in human-agent systems could prove beneficial in a hostile environment, and proposed an initial demonstration which has been successfully implemented[2] using a test-bed based on JACK[3] and Unreal Tournament (UT) [4]. This paper describes how to harvest these results and proposes a team for situations where human-agent collaboration is crucial to its success. A specific game type within Unreal Tournament is utilised, called Capture The Flag[5]. The proposed team is designed with the Prometheus agent design methodology[6] as a guide and is comprised of humans and agents each having a specific role. © Springer-Verlag 2004.