Context: Software development depends significantly on team performance, as does any process that involves human interaction. Objective: Most current development methods argue that teams should self-manage. Our objective is thus to provide a better understanding of the nature of self-managing agile teams, and the teamwork challenges that arise when introducing such teams. Method: We conducted e...

Our aims in this chapter are twofold. First, we place teamwork in the context of the evolutionary analysis of cooperation and altruism. This allows us to predict the evolutionary scenarios likely to have favoured the evolution of team work, the likely origins of human teamwork and the biases to be predicted in team thinking. Second, we examine the influences of environmental risk – conceptualiz...

For applications involving heterogeneous agents working together to achieve complex goals, teamwork [,,] has emerged as the dominant coordination paradigm. For domains as diverse as rescue response, military, space, sports and collaboration between human workmates, flexible, dynamic coordination between cooperative agents needs to be achieved despite complex, uncertain, hostile environments. Th...

Teamwork is a critical capability in multi agent envi ronments Many such environments mandate that the agents and agent teams must be persistent i e exist over long periods of time Agents in such persistent teams are bound together by their long term common interests and goals This paper focuses on exible teamwork in such per sistent teams Unfortunately while previous work has investigated exib...

BACKGROUND A growing body of research shows links between poor teamwork and preventable surgical errors. Similar work has received little attention in the Global South, and in South Asia, in particular. This paper describes surgeons' perception of teamwork, team members' roles, and the team processes in a teaching hospital in Sri Lanka to highlight the nature of interprofessional teamwork and t...

The CMUMultiRobot Lab focuses on the study of team behavior in dynamic and uncertain environments. In order to further this research, we have developed an inexpensive autonomous robot platform, the Minnow. The CMU Hammerhead robot soccer team competes in the middle-size RoboCup competition using four of these Minnow robots. The 2001 CMU Hammerheads represent the evolution of the previous year’s...

Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training, entertainment, information integration, and collective robotics. Unfortunately, uncertainties in these complex, dynamic domains obstruct coherent teamwork. In particular, team members often encounter di ering, incomplete, and pos...

Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training, entertainment, information integration, and collective robotics. Unfortunately, uncertainties in these complex, dynamic domains obstruct coherent teamwork. In particular, team members often encounter diiering, incomplete, and pos...

Astronaut Jim Lovell’s words during the Apollo 13 lunar mission, “Houston, we have a problem,” launched a remarkable tale of effective teamwork and creative problem solving by NASA engineers working to try to save the lives of the imperiled crew when two oxygen tanks exploded en route to the moon. Details of the dramatic and successful resolution to the problem became widely known in the motion...