A new semantics of social commitments using Branching Space-Time logic

M. El-Menshawy, J. Bentahar, R. Dssouli

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Abstract

Commitments based on branching time logic are powerful representations for modeling multi-agent interactions. Current approaches into commitments have conceived these representations and evolved the commitments as "world-wide" states called moments. These approaches do not capture the space and space-like dimensions and ignore the causal relation between the participating agents. This paper presents a significant step towards developing a new logical semantics of social commitments based on Branching Space-Time (BST) logic. The contributions of this paper are threefold: first, we reformulate BST-logic from philosophical perspective to computational logic being used in computer science discipline; second, we enhance this logic with social commitments (propositional and conditional) and space-like modalities; and third, we present a new semantics model for social commitments and two-party operations that manipulate commitments in the same framework.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009
Pages492-496
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009 - Milano, Italy
Duration: 15 Sep 200918 Sep 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009
Volume3

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2009
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityMilano
Period15/09/0918/09/09

Keywords

  • Branching Space-Time
  • Social commitments
  • Space-like operator

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