Behaving responsible in multi-agent worlds

Authors:
Tiago de Lima;Lambèr Royakkers;Frank Dignum
Affiliations:
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Year:
2009

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Abstract

It has been proposed that a good way of allocating tasks to agents is by ascribing them obligations, i.e., if we want agent i achieves &phis;, we can stipulate that 'it is obligatory for i that &phis;'. Here, we argue that this method is not adequate to guide agent's decisions. Then, using a multi-agent extension of propositional dynamic logic, with operators expressing agents' knowledge and abilities, we show that when agents' decisions are guided by responsibilities, as we define here, a successful performance is more likely to be obtained.