Multi-agent oriented constraint satisfaction
Artificial Intelligence
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Commitments and causality for multiagent design
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent architectures for flexible, practical teamwork
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Modeling web service composition and execution via a requirements-driven approach
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Enacting protocols by commitment concession
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
AIF+: Dialogue in the Argument Interchange Format
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2008
Multiparty proactive communication: a perspective for evolving shared mental models
AAAI'06 Proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Identifying Commitment-Based Software Requirements to Thwart Unfair and Deceptive Practices
RELAW '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law
Towards a logical model of social agreement for agent societies
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Directed deadline obligations in agent-based business contracts
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Running contracts with defeasible commitment
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
Requirements-Driven modeling of the web service execution and adaptation lifecycle
ICDCIT'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
Agreeing on defeasible commitments
DALT'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
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Multiparty agreements often arise in a multiagent system where autonomous agents interact with each other to achieve a global goal. Multiparty agreements are traditionally represented by messaging protocols or event-condition-action rule sets in which agents exchange messages in a predefined sequence to ensure both global and local consistency. However, these models do not readily incorporate agents' autonomy and heterogeneity, which limits their ability to help build a flexible open system. Commitments have been studied for modelling various agent interactions. They have also been used as the key elements for formulating multi-party agreements and centralized approaches for resolving potential conflicts. This paper extends the above results by refining the formalizations and the existing protocols and proposing a decentralized protocol which is more efficient in resolving conflicts. It also introduces the concept of protocol safety, which ensures that agents not only interact efficiently but also correctly. This approach is geared toward constructing business processes where agents are mutually constraints in a manner that preserves their autonomy and heterogeneity.