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This paper focuses on the concept of group responsibility and presents a formal analysis of it from a strategic point of view. A group of agents is considered to be responsible for an outcome if the group can avoid the outcome. Based on this interpretation of group responsibility, different notions of group responsibility are provided and their properties are studied. The formal analysis starts with the semantics of different notions of group responsibility followed by their logical characterizations. The presented work is compared and related to the existing work on responsibility.
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Bulling, N., Dastani, M. (2013). Coalitional Responsibility in Strategic Settings. In: Leite, J., Son, T.C., Torroni, P., van der Torre, L., Woltran, S. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. CLIMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40624-9_11
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