Multi-agent information dependence

There has been an increasing interest in reasoning about multi-agent information dependence, which is very important for supporting social reasoning in multi-agent cooperations. In this paper we seek to characterize the nature of multi-agent information dependence in general, and investigate ways of using information dependence knowledge in agent teamwork settings. We also describe a tool that can facilitate humans to dynamically manipulate information dependence.

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