Agent sourcebook
Intelligent software agents
Mobile agents and the future of the internet
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Intelligent Software Agents: Foundations and Applications
Intelligent Software Agents: Foundations and Applications
Ensuring the Success of Contract Formation in Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
Electronic Commerce Research - Special issue on agents in electronic commerce
On agent technology for e-commerce: trust, security and legal issues
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Contracting agents: legal personality and representation
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Cognitive automata and the law: electronic contracting and the intentionality of software agents
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Software agents as boundary objects
AICOL'11 Proceedings of the 25th IVR Congress conference on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems: models and ethical challenges for legal systems, legal language and legal ontologies, argumentation and software agents
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Currently, electronic agents are being designed and implemented that, unprecedentedly, will be capable of performing legally binding actions. These advances necessitate a thorough treatment of their legal consequences. In our paper, we first demonstrate that electronic agents behave structurally similar to human agents. Then we study how declarations of intention stated by an electronic agent are related to ordinary declarations of intention given by natural persons or legal entities, and also how the actions of electronic agents in this respect have to be classified under German law. We discuss four different approaches of classifying agent declarations. As one of these, we propose the concept of an "electronic person" (i.e., agents with limited liability), enrolment of agents into an agent register, and agent liability funds as means to serve the needs of all contracting parties.