To implement an interorganizational process between different enterprizes, one needs to
agree on the 'rules of engagement'. These can be specified in terms of a contract that …

Business service engagements involve processes that extend across two or more
autonomous organizations. Because of regulatory and competitive reasons, requirements …

Multiagent social commitments provide a principled basis for agent interactions, and serve
as a natural tool to resolve design ambiguities. Indeed, they have been the subject of …

Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems.
Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to …

Business contracts tend to be complex. In current practice, contracts are often designed by
hand and adopted by their participants after, at best, a manual analysis. This paper …

We present Version 2 of system Cplus2ASP, which implements the definite fragment of
action language \calC+. Its input language is fully compatible with the language of the …

Commitments have recently emerged as a valuable abstraction for characterizing
interactions among autonomous agents at the level of their business relationships …

In today's volatile business environments, collaboration between information systems, both
within and across company borders, has become essential to success. An efficient supply …

Multiagent systems are distributed systems. Engineering a multiagent system means
rigorously specifying the communications among the agents by way of interaction protocols …

Existing approaches about defining formal semantics of commitment usually consider
operations as axioms or constrains on top of the commitment semantics, which fail to capture …