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Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations

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Laurence Cholvy,

Christophe GarionAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 962 - 963

https://doi.org/10.1145/860575.860746

Published: 14 July 2003 Publication History

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A collective obligation is an obligation directed to a group of agents so that the group, as a whole, is obliged to achieve a given task. The problem investigated here is the impact of collective obligations on individual obligations, i.e. obligations directed to single agents of the group. In this case, we claim that the derivation of individual obligations from collective obligations depends on several parameters among which the ability of the agents (i.e. what they can do) and their own personal commitments (i.e. what they are determined to do). As for checking if these obligations are fulfilled or not, we need to know what are the actual actions performed by the agents.

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Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems
2. Theory of computation
  1. Logic
    1. Modal and temporal logics

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AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

July 2003

1200 pages

ISBN:1581136838

DOI:10.1145/860575

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Ali MBussard LPinsdorf U(2009)Obligation language and framework to enable privacy-aware SOAProceedings of the 4th international workshop, and Second international conference on Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security10.1007/978-3-642-11207-2_3(18-32)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2009
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