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....syntax and specialized terms for describing business contracts. FLBC has not been applied as widely as KQML. However, FLBC can be a useful content language for business communication. It complements our approach, which by contrast, emphasizes protocols. Commitments have been studied before [3, 6], but were not used for protocol speci cation as we have done here. Verharen [16] develops a contract speci cation language, CoLa, to specify transactions and contracts. Verharen s approach bene ts from commitments in expressing actions, but it treats commitments as simple, undirected ....

Les Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. In [8], pages 389-404. 1998.

....a coalition formation mechanism based on trust relationships. Their approach extends existing transaction oriented coalitions, and might be an interesting direction for distributed reputation management for electronic commerce. There has been much work on social abstractions for agents, e.g. [5, 9]. The initial work on this theme studied various of relationships among agents. More recent work on these themes has begun to look at the problems of deception and fraud [6] However, our proposed approach goes beyond their approach in its representations of trust, propagation algorithms, and ....

Les Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47:107--138, 1991.

....norms, based on reflecting upon the results of actions. Structural coordination as proposed in [90] is another example of an intermediate solution that is only suitable for closed systems (or at least systems in which the behavior of new members has to conform to preconceived rules) Open systems [56] (with respect to the composition of the social system and the environment in which it is to function) require the most flexible solution. During the lifetime of the system, norms evolve (or possible even emerge) to adapt to changes in the circumstances in the physical and social world. The ....

L. Gasser. Social Conceptions of Knowledge and Action: DAI Foundations and Open Systems Semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47:107--138, 1991.

....actions. In multiagent systems, in addition, protocols should respect agents autonomy and enable them to interact flexibly to exploit opportunities and to handle exceptions. In order to achieve this, we use commitments to denote the mean ings of the actions. Commitments have been studied before [1, 5] but have not been used for protocol specification as we have done here. Permissions and prohibitions are also useful in protocol specifications. Permissions in our approach can be accommodated through preconditions of the actions such that an action would only initiate properties if the party ....

L. Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. In [6], pages 389-404. 1998.

....completing a job should form relationships that facilitate long term teamwork. This provider grouping can be formalized by the concept of organisation. Organisations are social structures that provide processes for conflict resolution, which results from previously resolved problems or conflicts [7]. They institutionalise anticipated coordination, which is especially useful for medium and large scale applications that require the limitation of the agents communication behaviour. Jennings writes that the development of robust and scalable software systems requires autonomous agents that ....

L. Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47:107--138, 1991.

.... of subsystems (simplifying representation and design) and modularise its functionality (providing the basis for rapid development and incremental deployment) Organisations are social structures which have mechanisms of conflict resolution resulting from previously resolved problems or conflicts [7]. They institutionalise 2 anticipated coordination, which is especially useful for medium and large scale applications that require limitation of the agents communication behaviour. With this work, we provide some terminology and theory for the realisation of dynamically organised societies of ....

L. Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47:107--138, 1991.

....should be able to deal with it. Dynamic and open systems. Open systems in which system components may join and leave at run time, and which may be composed of entities that a designer had no knowledge of at design time have long been recognised as a difficult class of system to engineer [13, 15]. Organisation structures. Another aspect of agent based analysis and design that requires more work is the notion of an organisational structure. At the moment, such structures are only implicitly defined within Gaia within the role and interaction models. However, direct, explicit ....

L. Gasser. "Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics, " Artif. Intell., vol. 47, pp. 107--138, 1991.

....exchange, they enable using each other as a way to access additional resources otherwise unaccessible or too costly to obtain. From their earliest definitions, systems of distributed intelligent agents, so called multi agent systems (MAS) by the DAI community, relie on sociological theory [Gasser 91] and use centrally the concept of commitments [Fikes 82] Building upon the seminal work of symbolic interactionists such as [Gerson 76] Bond 90] and [Dongha 94] propose a definition and a computational model of the concept of commitment that leads naturally to the study of resource management. ....

Les Gasser. Social Conceptions of Knowledge and Action: DAI Foundations and Open Systems Semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47, 107-138, 1991.

.... whose structure is given by multisets of active atomic components) IAMs may be seen as a necessary, intermediate step in going towards a comprehensive sociology and psychology of open systems, which will be capable of capturing also higher level aspects in the behavior of software agents [12, 15, 21]. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 introduces the metaphor of IAMs, based on a naive view of wave mechanics; indeed, our societies are so simple that their behavior can be captured in a totally mechanistic fashion. Section 3 introduces the most direct formal counterpart ....

L. Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47(1-3), 1991.

....obligations are analysed and formalised in a deontic logic framework. The notions of individual and collective commitment are de ned to specify which individual has the responsibility to ful ll an internal obligation as part of the collective obligation. In DAI theories of organisations ([5]) it is emphasized that commitment is a crucial notion to analyse a collective activity or the structure of an organisation. In this paper we gave a rst attempt to formalise the notion of commitment to determine which plan has to be followed to achieve a joint goal, i.e. the ful llment of ....

....(see [1, 4, 18] The core of such a commitment is delegation. Delegation is a basic ingredient for joint intentions, true cooperation and team work. It can be used for a plan based de nition of tasks, which have to be achieved by the agents of the group. In fact, in organization theories of DAI ([5]) negotiation systems and cooperative software agents, it is emphasized that commitment is a crucial notion to analyse a collective activity or the structure of an organisation, through the allocation of some task by a given agent to another agent. This is basically correct, although is not ....

Gasser, L., Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics, Articial Intelligence 47, pp. 107-138, 1991.

....successfully combined to yield true social intelligence. We have identified frames and framing as useful sociological concepts in the development of a social reasoning architecture: in contrast to top down sociological theories, these concepts assume a symbolic interactionist perspective (Gasser [9, 10] was the first to introduce concepts from this school of research in DAI, cf. his comments in [2] that allows for a very natural combination of the cognitive and the social level of intelligence we have underpinned this hypothesis by showing that both notions can be used as starting points for ....

L. Gasser. Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics. Artificial Intelligence, 47:107--138, 1991.

....obligations are analysed and formalised in a deontic logic framework. The notions of individual and collective commitment are defined to specify which individual has the responsibility to fulfill an internal obligation as part of the collective obligation. In DAI theories of organisations ([6]) it is emphasized that commitment is a crucial notion to analyse a collective activity or the structure of an organisation. In this paper we gave a first attempt to formalise the notion of commitment to determine which plan has to be followed to achieve a joint goal, i.e. the fulfillment ....

Gasser, L., Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics, Artificial Intelligence 47, pp. 107-138, 1991.

....systems have long been the subject of study in computing science. But what are the appropriate concepts for modelling organizations Some Requirements for an Organization Modelling Framework. Many authors have pointed to the pitfalls of mechanistic views of organizations [32] 17] 14] 36] [11]. Formal procedures do not describe how work is actually carried out in organizations [32] They overlook the problem solving activities that are involved in getting work done. Organizational work is often open ended [14] because social actors have limited knowledge about, and limited control ....

....environments. Social actors are best seen as being situated within a network or web of social relationships [17] 20] Conflict is ubiquitous in a social environment both within and among social actors due, for example, to resource limitations or differences in values and interests [20] [11]. To accommodate these characteristics of the organizational domain, a modelling framework needs to adopt a view of a social actor that recognizes the actor s inherent autonomy within a set of social constraints. Since social actors are multi faceted, each attempt to model an actor is from a ....

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