Network – Interwork – Teamwork

The term teamwork is well known from organizational theory. It deals with the structure and processes in organizations when groups of people act together in order to achieve a common goal. However, teamwork is also becoming increasingly important from a purely technical perspective when autonomous systems work together to accomplish a common task. We discuss prerequisites for teamwork of autonomous systems, and we discuss the extent to which human and technical teams are similar. Examples related to the soon-to-be professor emeritus illustrate our considerations.