Decentralized Control: Obligations and Permissions in Virtual Communities of Agents
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In this paper we introduce a model of local and global control policies regulating decentralized virtual communities of heterogeneous agents. We illustrate how the model can be formalized if agents attribute mental attitudes to normative systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003