Action Concepts for Describing Organised Interaction

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  • HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Advanced Technology Track - Volume 5
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  • 1997

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Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to propose a set of actionconcepts useful for describing organised interaction. Theseaction concepts focus on two distinctions: the distinctionbetween "direct" and "indirect" action, and the distinctionbetween "successful" and "not necessarily successful"action.The formal characterisation of these concepts is given bymeans of modal logics, following the same tradition inthe logical characterisation of act descriptions as employedby Kanger and Pörn.The modal action operators proposed are also combinedwith a deontic logic and a conditional logic, in order toillustrate their application to the analysis of some simpleorganisations. The focus of interest is on the notion oftransmission of agency, and on the characterisation of theconditions under which an organisation recognises that anagent has fulfilled the responsibilities assigned to him.