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AAAI
1994
13 years 6 months ago
1994
Formalizing the ontological commitment of a logical language means offering a way to specify the intended meaning of its vocabulary by constraining the set of its models, giving e...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract In ethical discourse, it is common practice to distinguish between normative commitments and descriptive commitments. Normative commitments reflect what a person ought to ...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
AIL
1999
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture for ...