TY - GEN
T1 - Collective obligations and agents
T2 - 7th International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2004
AU - Grossi, Davide
AU - Dignum, Frank
AU - Royakkers, Lamber M.M.
AU - Meyer, John-Jules Ch.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligations to individual ones: which individual agent in a group should be held responsible if an obligation directed to the whole group is not fulfilled? To this aim, concepts from planning literature (like plan and task allocation) are first used in order to conceptualize collective agency, and then formalized by means of a dynamic deontic logic framework. Within this setting, a formal account of the notion of coordination, intended as management of interdependencies among agents' activities, is also provided.
AB - This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligations to individual ones: which individual agent in a group should be held responsible if an obligation directed to the whole group is not fulfilled? To this aim, concepts from planning literature (like plan and task allocation) are first used in order to conceptualize collective agency, and then formalized by means of a dynamic deontic logic framework. Within this setting, a formal account of the notion of coordination, intended as management of interdependencies among agents' activities, is also provided.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=9444266570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-25927-5_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-25927-5_9
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3540221115
SN - 9783540221111
T3 - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
SP - 129
EP - 145
BT - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
A2 - Lomuscio, A.
A2 - Nute, D.
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 26 May 2004 through 28 May 2004
ER -