Analyzing Team Decision-Making in Tactical Scenarios

Team decision making is a bundle of interdependent activities that involve gathering, interpreting and exchanging information; creating and identifying alternative courses of action; choosing among alternatives by integrating the often different perspectives of team members; implementing a choice and monitoring its consequences. To accomplish joint tasks, human team members often assume distinctive roles in task completion. The authors believe that to design and build software agents that can assist human teams, they need develop automated techniques to identify the roles of the human decision-makers.