Demonstration of teamwork in uncertain domains using hybrid BDI-POMDP systems

Personal Assistant agents are becoming increasingly important in a variety of application domains in offices, at home, for medical care and many others [5, 1]. These agents are required to constantly monitor their environment (including the state of their users), and make periodic decisions based on their monitoring. For example, in an office environment, agents may need to monitor the location of their user in order to ascertain whether the user would be able to make it on time to a meeting [5]. Or, they may be required to monitor the progress of a user on a particular assignment and decide whether or not the user would be able to meet the deadline for completing the assignment. Teamwork between such agents is important in Personal Assistant applications to enable agents working together to achieve a common goal (such as finishing a project on time). This working demonstration shows a hybrid(BDI-POMDP) approach to accomplish such teamwork.