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The training of teams in highly dynamic, multi-agent virtual worlds places a heavy demand on an instructor. We address the instructor’s problem with the PuppetMaster. The PuppetMaster manages a network of monitors that report on the activities in the simulation in order to provide the instructor with an interpretation and situation-specific analysis of student behavior. The approach used to model student teams is to structure the state space into an abstract situation-based model of behavior that supports interpretation in the face of missing information about agent’s actions and goals.
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Marsella, S.C., Johnson, W.L. (1998). An Instructor’s Assistant for Team-Training in Dynamic Multi-agent Virtual Worlds. In: Goettl, B.P., Halff, H.M., Redfield, C.L., Shute, V.J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68716-5_52
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