Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...
Abstract. The rapid growth of personal email communication, instant messaging and online communities has brought attention to the important role of interpersonal trust in online co...
Online communities are increasingly important in modern social life. Yet, the diverse collection of guidelines that have directed online community design may not be keeping pace w...
Internet-mediated virtual teamworking is increasingly becoming an integral part of the work life for many people in information societies. This paper reports an investigation on t...
Online dispute resolution is becoming the main method when dealing with a conflict in e-commerce. A family of defeasible reasoning patterns is used to provide a useful link betwee...