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Analyzing Multiparty Agreements with Commitments

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems II (AOIS 2004)

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Multiparty agreements often arise in a multiagent system where autonomous agents interact with each other to achieve a global goal. Multiparty agreements are traditionally represented by messaging protocols or event- condition-action rule sets in which agents exchange messages in a predefined sequence to ensure both global and local consistencies. However, these models do not readily incorporate agents’ autonomy and heterogeneity, which limits their ability to help build a flexible open system. Commitments have been studied for modelling various agent interactions. This paper introduces commitments as the key elements in formulating multiparty agreements. Our model focuses on how agents may negotiate with each other to build a mutual agreement based on their individual constraints. The actual execution sequence is validated by checking the compliance of commitment casual relations. Our approach is geared toward constructing business processes where agents are mutually constrained in a manner that preserves their autonomy and heterogeneity.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Feng Wan & Munindar P. Singh

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  1. DG Information Society and Media, Unit D3: Software Technologies, European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 29, level 4, office 49, 1049, Brussels, Belgium

    Paolo Bresciani

  2. DISI, University of Trento, 38100, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

  4. School of Information Management and Technology Management, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Graham Low

  5. Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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Wan, F., Singh, M.P. (2005). Analyzing Multiparty Agreements with Commitments. In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_6

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