We define grounding in terms of shared public commitments, and link public commitments to other, private, attitudes within a decidable dynamic logic for computing implicatures and predicting an agent’s next dialogue move.

In this paper we present a modal semantics for our approach based on social commitments and arguments for conversational agents. Our formal framework based on this approach uses three basic elements: social commitments, actions that agents apply to these social commitments and arguments that agents use to support their actions. This framework, called Commitment and Argument Network (CAN), forma...

This study aimed to explore teachers’ Internet self-efficacy and information commitments. More importantly, this study also attempted to identify possible factors that affect the teachers’ Internet self-efficacy. The participants were 301 elementary school teachers. In this study, the Internet Self-efficacy Survey (ISS) and the Information Commitments Survey (ICS) were used. Through both explor...

The idea of “information commitments” refers to both learners’ online searching strategies and the evaluative standards that students use to assess the accuracy and usefulness of information in web-based learning environments. Based upon the results of a pioneering and qualitative study on information commitments, this study aimed to develop an Information Commitments Survey (ICS) for assessing...

Understanding emotional disorders requires understanding the evolutionary origins and functions of normal emotions. They are special states, shaped by natural selection to adjust various aspects of the organism in ways that have tended to give a selective advantage in the face of the adaptive challenges characteristic of a particular kind of situation. They are designed to maximize reproductive...

a heavy loss will stop them, at least for the time being. Some individuals do not seem to have this ability to recognise that their optimism is not justified and, in spite of repeated losses, they are convinced that success is round the corner if only they keep on long enough. As a result they bet all their own money and then money which has been put aside for commitments such as electricity, f...