Commitment

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Commitment means to duty or pledge to something or someone, and can refer to:

• 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), and a personal commitment, which is often a pledge or promise to ones' self for personal growth.
• Brand commitment refers to the strength of the relationship between consumers (or customers) and a particular brand (or service).
• 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
• Organizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its members
• Commitment (computer science) - the concept of commitment is studied in several branches 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
• 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, a model of climate change.
• LBC Commitment, the second major-label album from the band Lucky Boys Confusion
• Commitment (Guang Liang album), or 約定, an album by a Malaysian Taiwanese singer Guang Liang.
• "Commitment," a song by LeAnn Rimes on her album entitled Sittin' on Top of the World.

[edit] See also

• Committed
• Commit_charge