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Quantified Degrees of Group Responsibility

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI (COIN 2015)

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This paper builds on an existing notion of group responsibility and proposes two ways to define the degree of group responsibility: structural and functional degrees of responsibility. These notions measure potential responsibilities of agent groups for avoiding a state of affairs. According to these notions, a degree of responsibility for a state of affairs can be assigned to a group of agents if, and to the extent that, the group of the agents have potential to preclude the state of affairs. These notions will be formally specified and their properties will be analyzed.

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    See [5] for a detailed discussion on why to focus on avoiding instead of enforcing a state of affairs.

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    In further references, “in M” might be omitted wherever it is clear from the context.

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  4. University of Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Yazdanpanah, V., Dastani, M. (2016). Quantified Degrees of Group Responsibility. In: Dignum, V., Noriega, P., Sensoy, M., Sichman, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI. COIN 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9628. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42691-4_23

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