Commitment Monitoring in a Multiagent System

Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) play a fundamental role in open multiagent systems where message exchange is the main if not the only way for agents to coordinate themselves. New proposals about ACL semantics based on social commitments aim at countering the shortcomings of the mainstream mental-state-based ones. The commitment solution does not come for free and calls for an adequate monitoring system that checks whether commitments are fulfilled or not.