Improving Decisions of Situated Agents in Competitive Scenarios

Environment's review, shared experiences and agents' self-analyze in the performance of cooperative tasks is a powerful set of resources that situated agents can use in hazardous, unpredictable and dynamic scenarios. Despite the importance of such information, nowadays, it handling suffer several carelessness when this knowledge is embodied. In fact, such consideration can be helpful by the agents to make suitable decision and to perform trustworthy individual commitments with other agents in order to benefit the collective execution performance. In light of this, we present a general structure for coordinating situated agents allowing both the individual agents' autonomy as well as explicit coordination. In this latter case, we pay particular attention to the possibility that agents with different abilities are aware on the needed to be focused on perceive the information aforementioned and used it in their individual reasoning process. We use the robot soccer test bed to express our method operatively. While several efforts are going towards take advantages of particular agent technologies, we think that simple consideration of the information aforementioned arise as bridge between the existence of such information and its embodiment as a whole system.