Affiliations: Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Banacha
2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland | Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland | Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of
Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands
Abstract: In this paper we aim to formally model individual, social and
collective motivational attitudes in teams of agents involved in Cooperative
Problem Solving. Particular attention is given to the strongest motivational
attitude, collective commitment, which leads to team action. First, building on
our previous work, a logical framework is sketched in which social commitments
and collective intentions are formalized. Then, different versions of
collective commitments are given, reflecting different aspects of Cooperative
Problem Solving, and applicable in different situations. The definitions differ
with respect to the aspects of teamwork of which the agents involved are aware,
and the kind of awareness present within a team. In this way a kind of tuning
mechanism is provided for the system developer to tune a version of collective
commitment fitting the circumstances. Finally, we focus attention on a few
exemplar versions of collective commitment resulting from instantiating the
general tuning scheme, and sketch for which kinds of organization and
application domains they are appropriate.
