Title :
Commitment mechanism in agent organization
Author :
Wei, Zhang ; Jinhui, Xu ; Chunyi, Shi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
As a novel system description and problem solving method, agent organization can potentially decrease the difficulty of problem solving and reduce the complexity of agent interactions. Current research about agent organization are mostly being undertaken in an agent organization model, organization structure, organization rules, organization formation and evolution, so it is necessary to extend the research to analyze mental states and their relations. In the paper, the mental states of commitments in agent organization are defined and analyzed including internal commitment, social commitment, group commitment and organization commitment. The semantics and properties of different commitments are given so advancing the works associated with agent organization
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; multi-agent systems; planning (artificial intelligence); problem solving; agent interactions; agent organization; commitment mechanism; evolution; group commitment; internal commitment; mental states; organization commitment; organization formation; organization rules; organization structure; problem solving method; social commitment; Bridges; Computer science; Information processing; Intelligent agent; Laboratories; Problem-solving;
Conference_Titel :
Info-tech and Info-net, 2001. Proceedings. ICII 2001 - Beijing. 2001 International Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7010-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICII.2001.983066