Agents-supported adaptive group awareness: smart distance and WWWaware

Author

Ye, Yiming ; Boies, Steven ; Huang, Paul Y. ; Tsotsos, John K.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

31

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

380

Abstract

We study how agents can facilitate and mediate interaction, communication, and cooperation among people. We propose the concepts of a smart distance and an awareness network in a distributed collaborative environment. We illustrate the architecture of an agent-mediated collaborative system - the agent-buddy system that can create a sense of group presence and, at the same time, preserve the privacy of each user. Virtual springs systems are used to model the awareness degrees among team members. Each agent makes decisions by considering multiple factors. The goal of the multi-agent team is to minimize the global awareness frustrations with respect to different kinds of tasks. Empirical studies were conducted to analyze the influence of individual behavior on global performance for various kinds of tasks

Keywords

adaptive systems; cooperative systems; distributed processing; groupware; software agents; virtual reality; adaptive group awareness; agent-buddy system; agent-mediated collaborative system; awareness network; cooperative systems; distributed collaborative environment; smart distance; virtual springs systems; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Decision making; Helium; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Pervasive computing; Privacy; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1083-4427

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3468.952712

Filename

952712