Policies for Common Awareness in Organized Settings

Groups of collaborative agents need to create group beliefs (acceptances) in order to act as a single entity. The notion of mutual or collective belief, which has been used extensively to cope with group belief, is not appropriate in organized settings where group members exploit shared policies to accept that certain states hold, even if some members of the group do not believe them. This paper distinguishes between beliefs and acceptances, introduces policies for acceptances, and investigates communication requirements towards forming acceptances.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CEEMAS
• Authors: Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George A. Vouros
• Keywords: CEEMAS 2005, Collective Belief, Group Belief, Single Entity