Article: Commitment

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Commitment may mean:

• Personal commitment, interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organisation (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee)
• Involuntary commitment, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person
• Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology in philosophy
• Commitment (Computer Science) to concept of commitment is studied in several brances of Computer Science around the notion of something pledged.

• Physical commitment is information pledged about physical systems (that are situated at a particular place and time).
• Social commitment, in a multi-agent system a directed obligation from one agent to another about to being about a certain state of affairs or to perform certain actions
• Organizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its members
• Commitment scheme, in cryptography
• Commit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management. For example, COMMIT is a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback (data management).

• Kingsbury Commitment, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industry
• Climate commitment studies
• Committed (1988 film), a 1988 movie.
• Committed (2000 film), a 2000 movie starring Heather Graham and Luke Wilson.
• Committed (2001 television series), an animated television series that aired on CTV in 2001.
• Committed (2005 television series), a sitcom that aired on NBC in 2005.
• Commitment, the second major-label album from the band Lucky Boys Confusion
• Commitment, or 約定, an album by a Malaysian Taiwanese singer Guang Liang.