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...
Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems. Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to their...
In this paper we present a fairly complex example of how the social model for agent conversations based on social commitments we have developed in the past formally supports the im...
The goal of my ongoing work is to provide an architecture for developing and manipulating modular ontologies in such a way that each ontology module can plug into or unplug from a...
Abstract. We demonstrate the manner in which high-level design requirements, e.g., as they correspond to the commonsensical conceptualisation of expert designers, may be formally s...