Cooperating agents: a unified theory of communication and social structure
Distributed artificial intelligence: vol. 2
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Autonomy: Theory, Dimensions, and Regulation
ATAL '00 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories Architectures and Languages
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"Adjustable autonomy means dynamically adjusting the level of autonomy of an agent depending on the situation" [1]. Our claim is that in studying how to adjust the level of autonomy and how to arrive to a dynamic level of control, it could be useful an explicit theory of delegation able to specify different kinds and levels of autonomy. In this paper, we present our model of delegation and help. On such a basis, it is possible to analyze the adjustable autonomy of an agent both by considering the level of delegation allowed to the contractor by the client, and the possibility for the contractor itself to adjust its own autonomy by restricting or by expanding the received delegation. We consider also possible conflicts due to the initiative of the delegated agent (contractor) or to an inappropriate delegation by the client: conflicts due to the contractor's willingness to help the client better and more deeply (collaborative conflicts).