12:00, 16 Jul 1997, WeH 7220 Task Decomposition and Dynamic Role Assignment for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork Peter Stone Strategic teamwork involves several agents engaged in achieving a common goal. Individual agents need to act autonomously while working towards the goal of the team. One technique for strategic teamwork consists of decomposing a priori the overall task into distinct roles. An effective, but simple approach is to define as many roles as there are agents and to assign one agent per role. However, such an approach can lead to an inflexible team: it will not easily be able to adapt to changes in the environment, in particular to the opponent in an adversarial setup. This talk presents a fully developed structure that includes multiple ways for task decomposition and allows for teams of agents to adapt in real time to changing environments. Dynamic role assignment is reached by altering both the mapping from agents to roles and the set of roles itself. The machine learning opportunities that arise are discussed. The concepts and approach are illustrated and demonstrated in the robotic soccer domain.