Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT

This work studies how the notion of accountability can play a key role in the design and realization of distributed systems that are open and that involve autonomous agents that should harmonize their own goals with the organizational goals. The socio–technical systems that support the work inside h...

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Main Authors: Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Katherine M. May, Roberto Micalizio, Stefano Tedeschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/489
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spelling doaj-e78ddb3e854d499b8d151e6a41c3623d2020-11-24T22:00:26ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172018-03-018448910.3390/app8040489app8040489Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPTMatteo Baldoni0Cristina Baroglio1Katherine M. May2Roberto Micalizio3Stefano Tedeschi4Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12, I10149 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12, I10149 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12, I10149 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12, I10149 Torino, ItalyDipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Pessinetto 12, I10149 Torino, ItalyThis work studies how the notion of accountability can play a key role in the design and realization of distributed systems that are open and that involve autonomous agents that should harmonize their own goals with the organizational goals. The socio–technical systems that support the work inside human companies and organizations are examples of such systems. The approach that is proposed in order to pursue this purpose is set in the context of multiagent systems organizations, and relies on an explicit specification of relationships among the involved agents for capturing who is accountable to whom and for what. Such accountability relationships are created along with the agents’ operations and interactions in a shared environment. In order to guarantee accountability as a design property of the system, a specific interaction protocol is suggested. Properties of this protocol are verified, and a case study is provided consisting of an actual implementation. Finally, we discuss the impact on real-world application domains and trace possible evolutions of the proposal.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/489methodologies for agent-based systemsorganizations and institutionssocio–technical systemscomputational accountabilitysocial commitmentsagent-based programming
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author Matteo Baldoni
Cristina Baroglio
Katherine M. May
Roberto Micalizio
Stefano Tedeschi
spellingShingle Matteo Baldoni
Cristina Baroglio
Katherine M. May
Roberto Micalizio
Stefano Tedeschi
Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
Applied Sciences
methodologies for agent-based systems
organizations and institutions
socio–technical systems
computational accountability
social commitments
agent-based programming
author_facet Matteo Baldoni
Cristina Baroglio
Katherine M. May
Roberto Micalizio
Stefano Tedeschi
author_sort Matteo Baldoni
title Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
title_short Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
title_full Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
title_fullStr Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
title_full_unstemmed Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT
title_sort computational accountability in mas organizations with adopt
publisher MDPI AG
series Applied Sciences
issn 2076-3417
publishDate 2018-03-01
description This work studies how the notion of accountability can play a key role in the design and realization of distributed systems that are open and that involve autonomous agents that should harmonize their own goals with the organizational goals. The socio–technical systems that support the work inside human companies and organizations are examples of such systems. The approach that is proposed in order to pursue this purpose is set in the context of multiagent systems organizations, and relies on an explicit specification of relationships among the involved agents for capturing who is accountable to whom and for what. Such accountability relationships are created along with the agents’ operations and interactions in a shared environment. In order to guarantee accountability as a design property of the system, a specific interaction protocol is suggested. Properties of this protocol are verified, and a case study is provided consisting of an actual implementation. Finally, we discuss the impact on real-world application domains and trace possible evolutions of the proposal.
topic methodologies for agent-based systems
organizations and institutions
socio–technical systems
computational accountability
social commitments
agent-based programming
url http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/489
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