KESAMSTA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of creation and manipulation of social commitments among the agents. Such interactions include B2B ...
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 ...
KBS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 5 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 ...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In this paper, we introduce a new framework for recognizing textual entailment (RTE) which depends on extraction of the set of publicly-held beliefs
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
DALT
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. We define a framework based on computational logic technology and on a reactive axiomatization of the Event Calculus to formalize the evolution of commitments in time. We...
DEON
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
We aim at an adequate formal description of the dynamics of commitments and trust by transferring insights about actual human practices to a formal setting. Our framework is based ...