Solving the frame problem: a mathematical investigation of the common sense law of inertia
Solving the frame problem: a mathematical investigation of the common sense law of inertia
Integrating communicative action, conversations and decision theory to coordinate agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Modelling social action for AI agents
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Group delegation and responsibility
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Semantics of Agent Communication Languages for Group Interaction
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dialogue Frames in Agent Communication
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Designing Conversation Policies using Joint Intention Theory
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
A model of dynamic resource allocation in workflow systems
ADC '04 Proceedings of the 15th Australasian database conference - Volume 27
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
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Modeling Delegation through an i*-based Approach
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
JELIA'06 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence
A delegation model for designing collaborative multi-agent systems
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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. The act of delegating a task from one agent to another can be carried out through the performance of one or more imperative communication acts. In this paper, the semantics of such imperatives are specified using a language of actions and states. The logical system that is developed then supports a notion of responsibility. An agent may not only be issued an imperative to directly carry out an event, or achieve some state, but also to be responsible for an event being carried out or state achieved - and these latter commitments might then be serviced through a subsequent act of delegation. The model thus clearly distinguishes between different classes of responsibility and different forms of delegation, and it is shown how this sound theoretical foundation can then be applied in specifying the semantics of imperatives in agent communication languages.