Changing Agreements: Intention Reconsideration based on Assumptions and Reasons
Diana Marosin, Henderik Alex Proper, Leendert van der Torre · Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) · 2012
Most researchers in agreement technologies are working on how to make or negotiate new agreements, less on changing existing agreements. This motivates our main research question: How to develop technology to support the change of agreements? In the master’s thesis [1] of the first author we start from a real-world case study in enterprise architecture [2]. We notice that, similar to agreement technology, the revision of architectural decisions is a key issue in framework supporting the change of agreements. We represent agreements as intentions, which are plans the agents commit to, chosen from a set of possible alternatives under discussion. Change of agreements is therefore intention reconsideration. The past work on intention reconsideration of Cohen and Levesque [3] or Rao and Georgeff [4] describes three types of commitment strategies: open-minded, single-minded and blindly committed. The agents are reconsidering their commitments based on their belief of a possible fulfilment or on the existence of a