Building Dynamic Agent Organizations in Cyberspace

The Karma-Teamcore framework focuses on rapidly integrating distributed, heterogeneous agents and tasking them via an abstract team-oriented program. The framework provides wrappers that encapsulate general teamwork reasoning and automatically generate the necessary coordination for robust execution of this abstract program. We describe the Karma-Teamcore framework and present an example of its successful application, namely, the simulated evacuation of civilians stranded in a hostile area.

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