Agent Assistants for Team Analysis

AI Magazine 

With the growing importance of multiagent teamwork, tools that can help humans analyze, evaluate, and understand team behaviors are also becoming increasingly important. To this end, we are creating isaac, a team analyst agent for post hoc, offline agent-team analysis. With the growing importance of teamwork, there is now a critical need for tools to help humans analyze, evaluate, and understand team behaviors. Indeed, in multiagent domains with tens or even hundreds of agents in teams, agent interactions are often highly complex and dynamic, making it difficult for human developers to analyze agent-team behaviors. The problem is further exacerbated in environments where agents are developed by different developers, where even the intended interactions are unpredictable.