The Benefits of Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaboration

To maintain the performance of a group is one objective in collaboration. Adaptive Collaboration (AC) is targeting this aim by conducting multiple role re-assignments during the collaboration process. This paper begins by clarifying AC. Then, the AC problem is formalized based on the Environment-Class, Agent, Role, Group, and Object (E-CARGO) model. Based on the general AC model, we consider a typical scenario where individual agents change their performance in different ways. To conduct AC with such a scenario, we propose an approach. Simulations are conducted to verify the benefits of the AC approach in this scenario. Results indicate that the proposed AC approach performs better than static collaboration in the assumed scenario with consideration of costs.