What's needed to build team players? (Extended abstract for an invited talk)

In this talk, I will briefly review the major features of one model of collaborative planning, SharedPlans. The model provides a framework in which to raise and address fundamental questions about collaboration and the construction of collaboration-capable agents. I will discuss recent approaches to three plan management processes - assessment of alternatives, commitment management, and group decision-making for recipe selection and task allocation - and will raise several challenges for future research.

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