Collective obligations and agents: Who gets the blame?

Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Lamber M.M. Royakkers, John-Jules Ch. Meyer

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDeontic Logic in Computer Science
EditorsA. Lomuscio, D. Nute
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages129-145
ISBN (Print)3540221115, 9783540221111
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2004 - Madeira, Portugal
Duration: 26 May 200428 May 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference7th International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2004
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityMadeira
Period26/05/0428/05/04

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