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Agents interacting in team environments make use of a social structure which, Castelfranchi has recently claimed, must be modelled by commitments which are external to any particular agent. Such social commitments are between agents, though usually with respect to some action or state which the committed agent is prepared to perform or achieve. We start with Castelfranchi's concept of social commitment and formalise aspects of it within the BDI agent framework. We use this formalisation to characterise different sorts of social behaviour in the interaction between agents.
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Cavedon, L., Rao, A., Tidhar, G. (1997). Social and individual commitment. In: Cavedon, L., Rao, A., Wobcke, W. (eds) Intelligent Agent Systems Theoretical and Practical Issues. IAS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62686-7_34
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