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On Commitments, Roles, and Obligations

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From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001)

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This paper presents a formalisation of obligations, social commitments and roles for BDI agents. We present a formal analysis of general obligations and relativised-to-one obligations from a bearer to a single counterparty and we examine obligations and relativised-toone obligations in the context of strong realism for BDI agents. We also discuss how relativised-to-one obligations arise as a result of social commitments and the adoption of roles. In our framework, if an agent adopts a role, then this role is associated with one or more social commitments. Social commitments give rise to relativised obligations and consequently, roles, social commitments and relativised obligations are interwoven.

The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Maria Fasli

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Barbara Dunin-Keplicz

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgy, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Edward Nawarecki

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Fasli, M. (2002). On Commitments, Roles, and Obligations. In: Dunin-Keplicz, B., Nawarecki, E. (eds) From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. CEEMAS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45941-3_10

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