Mission impossible? Automatically assembling agents from high-level task descriptions

In this paper, we present our notion of automatically assembling agents on-demand given high-level task descriptions. Our approach is based on the concept of the mission, which is represented by a hierarchical structure called the task decomposition diagram (TDD). Tasks in TDD are specified using a task specification language, which defines the functionality and possible implementation of those tasks. We discuss several strategies for executing the TDD, for assembling agents based on the TDD, and present the architecture of our prototype system called eHermes.