Adaptive Collaboration With Training Plan Considering Role Correlation

Abstract

Based on role-based collaboration (RBC), group role assignment (GRA) optimizes a team’s overall performance by assigning the most appropriate individual agents from the team’s viewpoint based on agents’ role-playing abilities. As an extension of GRA, GRA with a training plan (GRATP) deals with the impact of training on team management. Considering the correlation between roles, the training of one agent on one role also affects the performance of the agent in other roles. Moreover, in the adaptive collaboration (AC) problem, the training time also affects significantly the agent’s ability, as an agent’s ability changes over time. However, the existing GRATP models fail to consider these factors in the collaboration process. Therefore, we aim to address the role-correlation-based adaptive GRATP (RCA-GRATP) in this article. This article contributes two aspects to the literature on AC. 1) RCA-GRATP problem is abstracted based on RBC and GRA. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first article that explicitly considers role correlation in the RBC problems. 2) A comprehensive formalization of RCA-GRATP and two solving algorithms for diverse situations are proposed to solve the formalized problems. Experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in diverse scenarios.