Emotions as commitments operators: A foundation for control structure in multi-agents systems

Typically, multi-agent systems (MAS) relie on sociological theory and use centrally the concept of commitment. A definition as well as a tentative computational model of this concept, emerge from research in sociology and in computer science, leading naturally to the study of resource management. We claim that effective resource management in a distributed system requires powerful control structure yet to be founded. We then propose a model of control that stems from the psychology of human emotions as part of the fundamental definition of more autonomous, and adaptive multi-agent systems.