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Distributed teams of agents (robots and workstations) hold great promise for solving complex tasks efficiently, reliably, and automatically. But automatic coordination of the actions of the autonomous agents within a team remains a difficult problem. We suggest that, in order to engender cooperation and to avoid interference among the agents in a team, the general organization of the team reflect the structure of the task. Moreover, the team itself may be a dynamic, fluid entity whose logical structure is maintained by a run-time system, even in the face of attrition, substitution of team members, and explicit recruitment of new members. The Method of Dynamic Teams is based 011 this principle of fluidity.
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Jennings, J., Kirkwood-Watts, C. (1998). Distributed Mobile Robotics by the Method of Dynamic Teams. In: Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72198-4_5
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