Rights and coordination in Multi-Agent Systems

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  • Eduardo Alonso
چکیده

Agents' behaviour is not only dictated by utility calculus, as has frequently been proposed. Even if we adopt a welfarist design, interests and not utilities seem to guide a very important part of agents' behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Agents have rights that protect their interests against additive utilities: Rights allow them enough freedom, but at the same time constrain them (prohibiting speciic actions). So far, Castelfranchi 4] studied the right to claim generated by social commitments, and recently Norman et al. 13] have deened rights in the form of permissions as arguments in agreements. In this paper we introduce some intuitive ideas about basic rights or liberties: How they are understood, their functions and their relations with unconstrained actions in a general model of coordination. De mis deberes hablan, paloma, de mis derechos no Spanish popular song

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تاریخ انتشار 1998