Automated Team Analysis

An interesting problem that AI researchers face today is that of constructing experts that can recognize and analyze team behavior and provide advice to improve it. Team analysis is critical to many areas of research, such as the evaluation of human teams as well as evaluation of alternative designs of synthetic agent teams. In particular, evaluation of synthetic agent teamwork is a critical requirement as agent teams are employed across an increasing range of multi-agent synthetic environments, including such diverse application areas as virtual environments for training, interactive entertainment, multirobotic space missions, and simulated synthetic air combat. In the RoboCup synthetic agent environment, a research environment based on the team sport of soccer, teamwork among the synthetic player agents is clearly fundamental, and as such makes an excellent test bed for our research.