@InCollection{COIN10,
  Title                    = {Group Intention Is Social Choice with Commitment},
  Author                   = {Boella, G. and Pigozzi, G. and Slavkovik, M. and van der Torre, L.},
  Booktitle                = {Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI},
  Publisher                = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
  Year                     = {2011},
  Editor                   = {De Vos, M. and Fornara, N. and Pitt, J. and Vouros, G.},
  Pages                    = {152-171},
  Series                   = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  Volume                   = {6541},

  Abstract                 = {An agent intends g if it has chosen to pursue goal g an is committed to pursuing g . How do groups decide on a common goal? Social epistemology offers two views on collective attitudes: according to the summative approach, a group has attitude p if all or most of the group members have the attitude p; according to the non-summative approach, for a group to have attitude p it is required that the members together agree that they have attitude p. The summative approach is used extensively in multi-agent systems. We propose a formalization of non-summative group intentions, using social choice to determine the group goals. We use judgment aggregation as a decision-making mechanism and a multi-modal multi-agent logic to represent the collective attitudes, as well as the commitment and revision strategies for the groups intentions.},
  ISBN                     = {978-3-642-21267-3},
  Keyword                  = {Computer Science},
  Url                      = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/416771343101l60h/}
}