promisejen
PromiseJen is a fictional model used in discussions of asynchronous coordination in distributed software and digital governance. It conceptualizes promises as first-class entities that agents can create, track, and resolve, providing a structured approach to commitments among participants in a system.
In the PromiseJen model, a promise has a sender, a recipient, a description of the obligation, a
Applications of PromiseJen are primarily didactic, used in textbooks, teaching materials, and prototype systems to illustrate
Origin and influence: PromiseJen originated in academic discussions of promise theory and agent-based design as a
See also: promise (computing), distributed systems, commitment protocols, promise theory, governance in software systems.