Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub19
Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations

Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations

Paolo Torroni, Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh, Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781605662565|ISBN10: 1605662569|EISBN13: 9781605662572
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch011
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Torroni, Paolo, et al. "Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations." Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 263-284. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch011

APA

Torroni, P., Yolum, P., Singh, M. P., Alberti, M., Chesani, F., Gavanelli, M., Lamma, E., & Mello, P. (2009). Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations. In V. Dignum (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models (pp. 263-284). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch011

Chicago

Torroni, Paolo, et al. "Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations." In Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, 263-284. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch011

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

Organizational models often rely on two assumptions: openness and heterogeneity. This is, for instance, the case with organizations consisting of individuals whose behaviour is unpredictable, whose internal structure is unknown, and who do not necessarily share common goals, desires, or intentions. This fact has motivated the adoption of social-based approaches to modelling interaction in organizational models. The idea of social semantics is to abstract away from the agent internals and provide a social meaning to agent message exchanges. In this chapter, we present and discuss two declarative, social semantic approaches for modelling interaction. The first one takes a state-oriented perspective, and models interaction in terms of commitments. The second one adopts a rule-oriented perspective, and models interaction in terms of logical formulae expressing expectations about agent interaction. We use a simple interaction protocol taken from the e-commerce domain to present the functioning and features of the commitment- and expectation-based approaches, and to discuss various forms of reasoning and verification that they accommodate, and how organizational modelling can benefit from them.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.