On Commitments, Roles, and Obligations

  • Authors:
  • Maria Fasli

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CEEMAS '01 Revised Papers from the Second International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a formalisation of obligations, social commitments and roles for BDI agents. We present a formal analysis of general obligations and relativised-to-one obligations from a bearer to a single counterparty and we examine obligations and relativised-toone obligations in the context of strong realism for BDI agents. We also discuss how relativised-to-one obligations arise as a result of social commitments and the adoption of roles. In our framework, if an agent adopts a role, then this role is associated with one or more social commitments. Social commitments give rise to relativised obligations and consequently, roles, social commitments and relativised obligations are interwoven.