Taskable Reactive Agent Communities (TRAC)

Principal Investigator:  Karen L Myers Mailing address: AI Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 AIC Program:  Representation and Reasoning Project home page at http://www.ai.sri.com/~trac/

The TRAC project developed mixed-initiative technology that enables flexible tasking and direction of agents by a user. Within TRAC, a user assigns tasks to agents along with guidance that imposes boundaries on agent behavior. During execution, the user manages agent activities in accord with a level of involvement that suits his individual needs. In essence, our work can be viewed as providing a form of process management technology that enables ready human control of agent communities.

• Myers, K. L. and Morley, D. N. Policy-based Agent Directability. in Agent Autonomy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.  [PDF, Details]

• Myers, K. L. and Morley, D. N. . Resolving Conflicts in Agent Guidance, in Proceedings of the AAAI-02 Workshop on Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches, 2002.  [PDF, Details]

• Myers, K. L. and Morley, D. N. Conflict Management for Agent Guidance, in Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Poster), 2002.  [PDF, Details]

• Myers, K. L. and Morley, D. N. Human Directability of Agents, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Victoria, B.C., 2001.  [PDF, Details]

• Myers, K. L. and Morley, D. N. Directing Agent Communities: An Initial Framework, in Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents, Seattle, WA, 2001.  [PDF, Details]