Commitments are being used widely to specify interaction among autonomous agents in multiagent systems. While various formalizations for commitments and its life cycle exist, there has been little work that studies commitments in relation to each other. However, in many situations, the content and state of one commitment may render another commitment useless or even worse create conflicts. This...

Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture for multiagent systems, which we dub spheres of commitment. We identify the key operations on commitments and multiagent systems. We distinguish between explicit and implicit commitments. Multiagent systems, viewed as sph...

Globalized content platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have been deeply involved in people’s various public activities, including news production dissemination, civic education, transportation. With the growth of these platforms, what responsibilities they should undertake for shared on them has become focus debate research among scholars. This essay argues that cooperative, legal, corporate...