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Engineering Multiagent Organizations Through Accountability

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In my PhD I have been investigating the notions of accountability and responsibility in multiagent organizations. The main objective of the work is to develop both a conceptual model and a programming framework encompassing the two concepts as engineering tools, which, in our view, are fundamental for the realization of robust systems.

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Tedeschi, S. (2021). Engineering Multiagent Organizations Through Accountability. In: Novais, P., Vercelli, G., Larriba-Pey, J.L., Herrera, F., Chamoso, P. (eds) Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications . ISAmI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58356-9_36

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