Accountability and Responsibility in Agent Organizations

We discuss the limits of current agent organizations, and the benefits of introducing an explicit account of responsibility and accountability. We, then, illustrate how through such notions it is possible to design both organization specifications and organization entities, that are guaranteed to pr...

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Published inPRIMA 2018: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems pp. 261 - 278
Main Authors Baldoni, Matteo, Baroglio, Cristina, Boissier, Olivier, May, Katherine Marie, Micalizio, Roberto, Tedeschi, Stefano
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Accountability
Agent organizations
Responsibility
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Summary:We discuss the limits of current agent organizations, and the benefits of introducing an explicit account of responsibility and accountability. We, then, illustrate how through such notions it is possible to design both organization specifications and organization entities, that are guaranteed to properly distribute responsibilities, that is, not only to own but also to connect the needed, distributed control over the goal so as to enable its achievement.
ISBN:3030030970
9783030030971
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-03098-8_16