Getting Robots, Agents and People to Cooperate: An Initial
Report  Paul Scerri, Lewis Johnson, David V. Pynadath, Paul
Rosenbloom, Nathan Schurr, Mei Si, and Milind Tambe  Combining
the unique capabilities of robots, agents and people (RAPs)
promises to improve the safety, efficiency, reliability and cost
at which some goals can be achieved, while allowing the
achievement of other goals not previously achievable. Despite
their heterogeneity, and indeed, because of their heterogeneity,
our key hypothesis is that in order for RAPs to work together
effectively, they must work as a team: they should be aware of
the overall goals of the team, and coordinate their activities
with their fellow team members in order to further the team’s
goals. This poses a challenge, since different RAP entities may
have differing social abilities and hence differing abilities to
coordinate with their teammates. To construct such RAP teams, we
make the RAPs "team ready" by providing each of them with
teamwork-enabled proxies. While