CSC: Criticality-Sensitive Coordination

Our Criticality-Sensitive Coordination (CSC) agents are designed to enhance the performance of a human-team working together in uncertain and dynamic settings by monitoring and adapting their plans as dictated by the evolution of the environment. Such situations model military scenarios such as a coordinated joint operations or enterprise settings such as multiple-project management. Among the many challenges in these situations are the large space of possible states due to uncertainty, the distributed / partial knowledge of current state and plan among the agents and the need to react in a timely manner to events that may not be in the original model. In fact, reaction alone is often insufficient as in environments where success depends on completing sequences of coupled actions, one needs to anticipate future difficulties and enable contingencies to alleviate potential hazards.