Commitment mechanism in agent organization

As a novel system description and problem solving method, agent organization can potentially decrease the difficulty of problem solving and reduce the complexity of agent interactions. Current research about agent organization are mostly being undertaken in an agent organization model, organization structure, organization rules, organization formation and evolution, so it is necessary to extend the research to analyze mental states and their relations. In the paper, the mental states of commitments in agent organization are defined and analyzed including internal commitment, social commitment, group commitment and organization commitment. The semantics and properties of different commitments are given so advancing the works associated with agent organization