Coordinating with obligations
- 1 January 1998
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
We explore the view that coordinated behavior is driven by thesocial constraints (e.g. obligations and interdictions) that agents inorganizations are subject to. In this framework, agents adopt thosegoals that are requested by their obligations, knowing that not fulfillingobligations induces a price to pay or a loss of utility. Basedon this idea we build an integrated agent coordination system wherewe represent the organization, the roles played by agents, the obligationsimposed among...Keywords
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