Commitment and Obligation Based on Utility in Agent Organization
- 1 July 2006
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 690-695
Abstract
It is important to design an agent with logical and decisive rationality in agent organization. Study about organization focuses on the definition of agent organization model and the analysis of organization formation and evolution, an attractive and challenging issue is how to combine logical and decisive rationality into a uniform framework. This paper aims at arguing the combination with logic and decision in agent organization. To pursue this aim, we extend the notions of commitment and obligation with utility in agent organization and utility reflects agent decision. In order to systematize the notions, formal tools are introduced to describe them as well as the semantics of utility for commitment and obligation are defined. We specify the properties and consequences of the extension for agent organizationKeywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Foundations of organizational structures in multiagent systems2005
- Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations2003
- Coordination based on obligation2002
- A meta-model for the analysis and design of organizations in multi-agent systems2002
- Commitment mechanism in agent organization2002
- Socially intelligent reasoning for autonomous agentsIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, 2001
- From collective to individual commitments1999
- A Modal Approach to Intentions, Commitments and Obligations: Intention plus Commitment yields Obligation1996