A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B contracts and processes, as realized via Web services and other such technologies. Business protocols, an interactionoriented approach for modeling business processes, are formulated in terms of the commitments. Commitm...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...

Abstract This paper considers the commitments we make by our linguistic choices, and things are committed to uses of language; it also how these can be avoided.

A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the agents. These include B2B contracts as realized via Web Services and other technologies. Also, the interaction protocols are formulated in terms of the commitments to regulate agents’ behaviors. However, such protocols can benefit from a stronger treatment o...

Boolean games (BGs) are a strategic framework in which agents’ goals are described using propositional logic. Despite the popularity of BGs, the problem of how agents can coordinate with others to (at least partially) achieve their goals has hardly received any attention. However, negotiation protocols that have been developed outside the setting of BGs can be adopted for this purpose, provided...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...