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Commitments, Expectations, Affordances and Susceptibilities: Towards Positional Agent Programming

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The paper introduces an agent architecture centered around the notions of commitment, expectation, affordance, and susceptibility. These components are to a certain measure at the base of any agent system, however, inspired by research in explanation-based decision making, this contribution attempts to make explicit and start organizing under the same operationalization neglected figures as negative commitment, negative expectation, etc.

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  1. Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Giovanni Sileno, Alexander Boer & Tom van Engers

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    Qingliang Chen

  2. Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Torroni

  3. Inria - Sophia Antipolis-Méditerran, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Serena Villata

  4. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jane Hsu

  5. Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

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Sileno, G., Boer, A., van Engers, T. (2015). Commitments, Expectations, Affordances and Susceptibilities: Towards Positional Agent Programming. In: Chen, Q., Torroni, P., Villata, S., Hsu, J., Omicini, A. (eds) PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25524-8_52

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