Delegation and Responsibility

  • Authors:
  • Timothy J. Norman;Chris Reed

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ATAL '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

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.