On Social Attitudes: A Preliminary Report

This paper describes our preliminary investigations into identifying, and ultimately formalising, the wide range of social problem solving behaviour which can occur in multiagent systems. In particular, this work examines the different agent attitudes which may prevail in social problem solving, the different types of individual and social commitment which flow from these attitudes, how and why these attitudes come to prevail, and how the attitudes lead to overall systems with radically different properties and characteristics