A logical analysis of commitment dynamics

  • Authors:
  • Emiliano Lorini

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Toulouse, IRIT, CNRS, France

  • Venue:
  • DEON'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Deontic logic in computer science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The aim of this work is to propose a model-theoretic semantics and a complete logic for the dynamics of commitments. In the first part of the article, a formalization of the concept of social commitment in STIT logic is presented. STIT is one of the most prominent formal accounts of agency. It is the logic of constructions of the form "agent i sees to it that ϕ". In the second part, the article presents an extension of STIT logic by dynamic operators which enable to describe two basic operations on commitment: commitment creation and commitment cancelation. The logic is used to develop an axiomatic and semantic analysis of commitment change in multi-agent systems.