In order to achieve long-term autonomy in the real world, fully autonomous agents need to be able to learn, both to improve their behaviors in a complex, dynamically changing world, and to enable interaction with previously unfamiliar agents. This talk begins by presenting layered learning, a hierarchical machine learning paradigm that enables learning of complex behaviors by incrementally lear...

The authors demarcated mental efficacy and physical efficacy at the team level, and they explored these 2 factors as outcomes of 4 potential inputs and as predictors of 3 outcomes among 110 newly formed action teams in a military setting. Both types of team efficacy benefited from greater team size and an initial experience of enactive mastery, but they were not influenced by teams' female repr...

Executive Summary Critical to the success of a high performance board is the ability of its directors to share leadership and to work as a dynamic team. Yet historically boardrooms have proven to be one of the most difficult places to build an effective team. Numerous factors work against boards operating as teams such as the small amount of time directors have together, limited access to criti...

This paper focuses on flexible teamwork in dynamic and realworld multi-agent domains. Such teamwork is not simply a union of agents’ simultaneous execution of individual plans, even if such execution pre-coordinated. Indeed, uncertainties in complex, dynamic domains often obstruct pre-planned coordination, with a resultant breakdown i teamwork. The central hypothesis in this paper is that for d...

Despite a burgeoning literature on teams and teamwork, scholars have not yet thoroughly examined the selection of individuals for forming teams. (McClough & Rogelberg, 2003). To form an effective team, we believe it is critical to identify individuals’ aptitudes that improve team performance, and determine how to apply those aptitudes to select team members. In this study, we focused on general...

There is a strong link between teamwork and patient safety. Emerging evidence supports the efficacy of teamwork improvement interventions. However, the availability of reliable, valid, and practical measurement tools and strategies is commonly cited as a barrier to long-term sustainment and spread of these teamwork interventions. This article describes the potential value of sensor-based techno...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based teamwork trainings are considered a powerful training method to advance teamwork, which becomes more relevant in medical education. The measurement of teamwork is of high importance and several instruments have been developed for various medical domains to meet this need. To our knowledge, no theoretically-based and easy-to-use measurement instrument has been publish...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by agents' conflicting beliefs about different aspects of their environment, about resource availability, and about their own or teammates' capabilities and performance. Team members thus need to communicate and negotiate to restore team coherence. This paper focuses on the problem of negotiations in teamwork...

Successful teamwork is being recognized as a necessity for many aspects of effective healthcare and team training has proved effective in improving teamwork in healthcare. Therefore it is important to recognize the competencies of teamwork relevant to undergraduate medical education. This review of the literature draws on the teamwork competencies as discussed through diverse contexts of health...