Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true your punk style, or dedicating life an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop account the nature such commitments, and argue that they significant insofar as help us manage temporally extended our agency relationships with objects. At same time, focusing on commitments can give better grasp normativity; this is ...

The success of contract-based multiagent systems relies on agents complying with their commitments. When something goes wrong, the key to diagnosis lies within the commitments’ mutual relations as well as their individual states. Accordingly, we explore how commitments are related through the three-agent commitment delegation operation. We then propose exception diagnosis based on such a relation.