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Accountability and Responsibility in Agent Organizations

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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.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Katherine Marie May, Roberto Micalizio & Stefano Tedeschi

  2. Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, Institut Henri Fayol, MINES Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

    Olivier Boissier

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  1. School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Tim Miller

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

    Nir Oren

  3. Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan

    Yuko Sakurai

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    Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

  6. Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA

    Tran Cao Son

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Baldoni, M., Baroglio, C., Boissier, O., May, K.M., Micalizio, R., Tedeschi, S. (2018). Accountability and Responsibility in Agent Organizations. In: Miller, T., Oren, N., Sakurai, Y., Noda, I., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Cao Son, T. (eds) PRIMA 2018: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03098-8_16

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