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Colored Trails is a research test-bed for investigating decision-making in groups comrising people, computer agents, and a mix of these tootwo.
Motivation
Widespread use of the Internet has fundamentally changed the ways in which we use computers, not only as individuals, but also within organizations. Settings in which many people and many computer systems work together, despite being distributed both geographically and in time, are increasingly the norm. Examples of group activities in which computer systems participate, whether as autonomous agents or as proxies for individual people, include online auctions, hospital care-delivery systems, emergency response systems, military systems, and systems administration groups. These increasingly prevalent, heterogeneous group activities of computer systems and people-- whether competitive, cooperative, or collaborative--frequently require decision-making on the part of autonomous-agent systems or the support of decision-making by people.
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