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In this paper we discuss and formalise collective aspects of obligations and commitments. Collective obligations are analysed and formalised in a deontic logic framework. The notions of individual and collective commitment are defined to specify which individual has the responsibility to fulfill an `internal ' obligation as part of the collective obligation. In DAI theories of organisations ([6]), it is emphasized that `commitment ' is a crucial notion to analyse a collective activity or the structure of an organisation. In this paper we gave a first attempt to formalise the notion of commitment to determine which plan has to be followed to achieve a joint goal, i.e. the fulfillment of a collective obligation. keywords: deontic logic, commitment, social agents, DAI-theory 1, |
