TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling the problem of many hands in organisations
AU - De Lima, Tiago
AU - Royakkers, Lambèr
AU - Dignum, Frank
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In this paper we provide a formalism to reason about the problem of many hands in organisations. This is a problem that arises whenever the organisation is responsible for some undesirable outcome but none of its members can be held responsible for the outcome. The formalism proposed here is a logic that extends the Coalition Epistemic Dynamic Logic by adding a notion of group knowledge and also organisational structures to its semantics. An organisational structure is a set of agents and some relations between them. It defines the power and coordination links between agents, which defines how agents delegate tasks and communicate. We give formal definitions for individual and collective responsibility, as well as for the problem of the many hands. © 2010 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.
AB - In this paper we provide a formalism to reason about the problem of many hands in organisations. This is a problem that arises whenever the organisation is responsible for some undesirable outcome but none of its members can be held responsible for the outcome. The formalism proposed here is a logic that extends the Coalition Epistemic Dynamic Logic by adding a notion of group knowledge and also organisational structures to its semantics. An organisational structure is a set of agents and some relations between them. It defines the power and coordination links between agents, which defines how agents delegate tasks and communicate. We give formal definitions for individual and collective responsibility, as well as for the problem of the many hands. © 2010 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956020993&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-606-5-79
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-606-5-79
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781607506058
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 79
EP - 84
BT - ECAI 2010
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care, KR4HC 2010, held in conjunction with the 19th European Conference in Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2010
Y2 - 17 August 2010 through 17 August 2010
ER -