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AUTONOMY 2003: Agents and Computational Autonomy pp 95–102Cite as

Types and Limits of Agent Autonomy

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This paper contends that to fully understand interactions between agents, one must understand the dependence and autonomy relations that hold between the interacting agents. Individual variations, interpersonal dependencies, and environmental factors are determinants of autonomy that will be discussed in this paper. The paper concludes with a discussion of situations when autonomy is harmful.

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  1. Computer Science & Computer Engineering Department, Engineering Hall, Room 313, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA

    Gordon Beavers & Henry Hexmoor

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  1. Gordon Beavers
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  1. University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Matthias Nickles

  2. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Michael Rovatsos

  3. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Gerhard Weiss

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Beavers, G., Hexmoor, H. (2004). Types and Limits of Agent Autonomy. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M., Weiss, G. (eds) Agents and Computational Autonomy. AUTONOMY 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_8

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