Law-governed interaction: a coordination and control mechanism for heterogeneous distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Workflow management: models, methods, and systems
Workflow management: models, methods, and systems
Defining interaction protocols using a commitment-based agent communication language
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on logical formalizations and commonsense reasoning
Theoretical Computer Science - Implementation and application of automata
Interaction Protocols as Design Abstractions for Business Processes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Model-Based Analysis of Obligations in Web Service Choreography
AICT-ICIW '06 Proceedings of the Advanced Int'l Conference on Telecommunications and Int'l Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
Contextualizing commitment protocol
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A logical model of directed obligations and permissions to support electronic contracting
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Formal aspects of digital commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Implementing commitment-based interactions
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A modular action description language for protocol composition
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Multiagent commitment alignment
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Amoeba: A methodology for modeling and evolving cross-organizational business processes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Run-Time Semantics of a Language for Programming Social Processes
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
A modular action description language for protocol composition
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A contextual reading of conditional commitments
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Fuzzy conformance checking of observed behaviour with expectations
AI*IA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial intelligence around man and beyond
CLIMA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational logic in multi-agent systems
Event condition expectation (ECE-) rules for monitoring observable systems
RuleML'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rule-based modeling and computing on the semantic web
Verifiable semantic model for agent interactions using social commitments
LADS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
Formalizing commitments using action languages
DALT'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
Exception diagnosis in multiagent contract executions
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Representing and monitoring social commitments using the event calculus
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B contracts and processes, as realized via Web services and other such technologies. Business protocols, an interaction-oriented approach for modeling business processes, are formulated in terms of the commitments. Commitments can support other forms of semantic service composition as well. This paper shows how to represent and reason about commitments in a general manner. Unlike previous formalizations, the proposed formalization accommodates complex and nested commitment conditions, and concurrent commitment operations. In this manner, a rich variety of open business scenarios are enabled.