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Delegation and Responsibility

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Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages (ATAL 2000)

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An agent may decide to delegate tasks to others. The act of delegating a task by one autonomous agent to another can be carried out by the performance of one or more imperative communication acts. In this paper, the semantics of imperatives are specified using a language of actions and states. It is further shown how the model can be used to distinguish between whole-hearted and mere extensional satisfaction of an imperative, and how this may be used to specify the semantics of imperatives in agent communication languages.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

    Timothy J. Norman

  2. Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, DD1 4HN, Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Chris Reed

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  1. Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, piazza S.Francesco 8, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  2. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yves Lespérance

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Norman, T.J., Reed, C. (2001). Delegation and Responsibility. In: Castelfranchi, C., Lespérance, Y. (eds) Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages. ATAL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44631-1_10

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