Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations

Authors Christophe Garion, Laurence Cholvy



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Christophe Garion
Laurence Cholvy

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Christophe Garion and Laurence Cholvy. Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations. In Normative Multi-agent Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7122, pp. 1-16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.11

Abstract

A collective obligation is an obligation directed to a group of 
agents so that the group, as a whole, is obliged to achieve a given 
task.
  
The problem investigated here is the impact of collective 
obligations to individual obligations, i.e. obligations directed to 
single agents of the group. The groups we consider do not have any 
particular hierarchical structure nor have an institutionalized 
representative agent. In this case, we claim that the derivation of 
individual obligations from collective obligations depends on 
several parameters among which the ability of the agents (i.e.  what 
they can do) and their own personal commitments (i.e.  what they are 
determined to do). As for checking if these obligations are  
fulfilled or not, we need to know what are the actual actions  
performed by the agents. 
 
This present paper addresses these questions in the rather general 
case when the collective obligations are conditional ones.

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  • Deontic logic
  • action
  • representation of preferences

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