2.1 Social commitments
In this paper we use the notion of social commitment to analyze agent organizations.
Before going further, we would like to point out that there are
different types of commitments: individual, collective or social The first
two are similar to intentions in the BDI model: the intentions of an agent or
of a group. Social commitments are relational: an agent is committed
towards another to do something. Intuitively, social commitments are similar,
although not identical, to the notion of contract