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2003
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Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents

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Resolving Commitments among Autonomous Agents
Commitments are a powerful representation for modeling multiagent interactions. Previous approaches have considered the semantics of commitments and how to check compliance with them. However, these approaches do not capture some of the subtleties that arise in real-life applications, e.g., e-commerce, where contracts and institutions have implicit temporal references. The present paper develops a rich representation for the temporal content of commitments. This enables us to capture realistic contracts and institutions rigorously, and avoid subtle ambiguities. Consequently, this approach enables us to reason about whether and when exactly a commitment is satisfied or breached and whether it is or ever becomes unenforceable.
Ashok U. Mallya, Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where AGENTCL
Authors Ashok U. Mallya, Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh
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