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From task delegation to role delegation

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AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 1997)

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Roles may be analyzed in many ways: “abstract agents”; as power positions; as sets of obligations; etc. For sure one of the main facets of roles is their Delegation-Adoption nature. This is exactly the perspective we assume here: it is a partial view of roles, but a fundamental one.

In this paper we try to analyze a role just as a special kind of task-delegation, or contract. We recapitulate the various levels of delegation and adoption (help), characterizing their basic principles and representations on the basis of a theory of plans, actions and agents. Then we show how delegation creates roles as well as delegation creates tasks. However, once roles exist they constraint also task delegation among agents. We examine also this dialectics between role and task delegation.

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  1. IP - CNR National Research Council Group of “Intelligence, Cognitive Modelling and Interaction, Viale Marx, 15, 0013, Roma, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi & Rino Falcone

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Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R. (1997). From task delegation to role delegation. In: Lenzerini, M. (eds) AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1321. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63576-9_115

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