Reasoning about Social Relationships with Jason

This work faces the problem of enabling an approach to agent programming, which allows agents to seamlessly manage and work both on social relationships and on abstractions which typically characterize agents themselves, like goals, beliefs, intentions. A similar approach is necessary in order to easily develop Socio-Technical Systems and provides a basis for carrying on methodological studies on system engineering. The paper presents an extension of JaCa(Mo) in which Jason agents can reason on social relationships, that are represented as commitments, and where Jason agents interact by way of special CArtAgO artifacts, which reify commitment-based protocols.