Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Implementing commitment-based interactions
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Goals in agent systems: a unifying framework
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Agent programming with temporally extended goals
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Amoeba: A methodology for modeling and evolving cross-organizational business processes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Enhancing Tropos with Commitments
Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications
Reasoning about agents and protocols via goals and commitments
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
A unified interaction-aware goal framework
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Representing long-term and interest BDI goals
ProMAS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Adaptation in open systems: giving interaction its rightful place
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Operational behaviour for executing, suspending, and aborting goals in BDI agent systems
DALT'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies VIII
Hierarchical planning about goals and commitments
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
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Whereas commitments capture how an agent relates with another agent, (private) goals describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Researchers have observed that goals and commitments are complementary, but have not yet developed a combined operational semantics for them. This paper makes steps towards such a semantics by relating the respective lifecycles of goals and commitments. We study how the the concepts cohere for one agent and how they engender cooperation between agents. We illustrate our approach via a real-world scenario in the domain of aerospace aftermarket services. We state how our semantics yields important desirable properties, including convergence of the configurations of cooperating agents, thereby delineating some theoretically well-founded yet practical modes of cooperation in a multiagent system.