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This paper deals with the problem of automating the contribution of resources owned by people to do work for others. This is by providing a means for owners of resources to maintain autonomy over how, when and to whom their resources are used with the specification of use policies governing resources. We give representations of requests for resource usage as a set of conditional norms and a use policy as specifying what norms should and should not be imposed on a resource (i.e. a set of meta-norms). Our main contribution is a reasoner built on the Event Calculus, that detects conflicts between requests and use policies, determining whether the request can be accepted.
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More general use policies are possible by extending the framework with variables. This would allow non-specific debtors and creditors to be specified, and the expression of meta-norms about norms where we are not concerned with exact terms.
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Thomas C. King—supported by the SHINE (http://www.shine.tudelft.nl) project of TU Delft. Authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers of COIN-14 for their helpful comments.
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King, T.C., van Riemsdijk, M.B., Dignum, V., Jonker, C.M. (2015). Supporting Request Acceptance with Use Policies. In: Ghose, A., Oren, N., Telang, P., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X. COIN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9372. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_8
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