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On the Semantics of Conditional Commitment

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Agent Communication II (AC 2006, AC 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3859))

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In this paper, we identify some problems with current formalizations of conditional commitments, i.e. commitments to achieve a goal if some condition becomes true. We present a solution to these problems. We also formalize two types of communicative actions that can be used by an agent to request another agent to achieve a goal or perform an action provided that some condition becomes true. Our account is set within ECASL [8], a framework for modeling communicating agents based on the situation calculus.

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Frank P. M. Dignum Rogier M. van Eijk Roberto Flores

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Khan, S.M., Lespérance, Y. (2006). On the Semantics of Conditional Commitment. In: Dignum, F.P.M., van Eijk, R.M., Flores, R. (eds) Agent Communication II. AC AC 2006 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3859. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68143-4_4

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