Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments
Commitments play a central role in multi-agent coordinatio n. However, they are inherently uncertain and it is important to ta ke these uncertainties into account during planning and scheduling. This paper add esses the problem of handling the uncertainty in commitments. We propose a new model of commitment that incorporates the uncertainty, the use of continge ncy analysis to reduce the uncertainty, and a negotiation framework for handling c ommitments with uncertainty.