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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Vassiliades, Vassilis
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contents As humans, robots, and software agents increasingly share safety-critical environments, coordination must move from static task allocation to managing uncertain commitments. Existing frameworks fall short: they either assume rigid, static teams or learn opaque joint policies that are hard to adapt and difficult to integrate with human decision-makers. To overcome these limitations, we propose Risk-Aware Option Clearing (ROC), a unifying coordination mechanism in which agents expose options (temporally extended skills) paired with risk summaries that predict outcome distributions. A central clearinghouse then assigns tasks by optimizing risk-adjusted mission utility under deadlines and safety constraints. ROC is a family of mechanisms, ranging from deployments where the clearinghouse learns outcome models from data to ones that consume full distributional predictions from agents. By treating risk-aware options as the basic coordination unit, ROC sketches a scalable, transparent infrastructure for integrating heterogeneous agents into future mixed human--agent societies and outlines a research agenda for such risk-aware clearing layers.
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spellingShingle From Task Allocation to Risk Clearing: A Unifying Interface for Mixed Human-Agent Societies
Vassiliades, Vassilis
Multiagent Systems
As humans, robots, and software agents increasingly share safety-critical environments, coordination must move from static task allocation to managing uncertain commitments. Existing frameworks fall short: they either assume rigid, static teams or learn opaque joint policies that are hard to adapt and difficult to integrate with human decision-makers. To overcome these limitations, we propose Risk-Aware Option Clearing (ROC), a unifying coordination mechanism in which agents expose options (temporally extended skills) paired with risk summaries that predict outcome distributions. A central clearinghouse then assigns tasks by optimizing risk-adjusted mission utility under deadlines and safety constraints. ROC is a family of mechanisms, ranging from deployments where the clearinghouse learns outcome models from data to ones that consume full distributional predictions from agents. By treating risk-aware options as the basic coordination unit, ROC sketches a scalable, transparent infrastructure for integrating heterogeneous agents into future mixed human--agent societies and outlines a research agenda for such risk-aware clearing layers.
title From Task Allocation to Risk Clearing: A Unifying Interface for Mixed Human-Agent Societies
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27547