Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents

Rafael C. Cardoso; Angelo  Ferrando; Joe Collenette; Louise A. Dennis; Michael Fisher

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48539-8_1

Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents

Rafael C. Cardoso, Angelo Ferrando, Joe Collenette, Louise A. Dennis, Michael Fisher

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In this paper, we discuss forward responsibilities in Belief-Desire-Intention agents, that is, responsibilities that can drive future decision-making. We focus on individual rather than global notions of responsibility. Our contributions include: (a) extended operational semantics for responsibility-aware rational agents; (b) hierarchical responsibilities for improving intention selection based on the priorities (i.e., hierarchical level) of a responsibility; and (c) shared responsibilities which allow agents with the same responsibility to update their priority levels (and consequently commit or not to the responsibility) depending on the lack (or surplus) of agents that are currently engaged with it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 11th International Workshop, EMAS 2023, Revised Selected Papers
Subtitle of host publication	International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Editors	Andrei Ciortea, Mehdi Dastani, Jieting Luo
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	3-22
Number of pages	20
Volume	14378
ISBN (Print)	9783031485381
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48539-8_1
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2023
Event	11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - London, United Kingdom Duration: 29 May 2023 → 30 May 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14378 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Abbreviated title	EMAS 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	29/05/23 → 30/05/23

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forward-looking responsibility
task responsibility
BDI agents

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Cangelosi, A. (PI), Lennox, B. (PI), Weightman, A. (CoI), Dennis, L. (CoI), Dixon, C. (CoI), Fisher, M. (CoI), Herrmann, G. (CoI), Dickson, A. (CoI), Lanzon, A. (CoI), Stancu, A. (CoI), Miller, A. (CoI), Freitas, A. (CoI), Nini, A. (CoI), Voronkov, A. (CoI), Brass, A. (CoI), Vijayaraghavan, A. (CoI), Parslew, B. (CoI), crowther, W. (CoI), Grieve, B. (CoI), Adorno, B. (CoI), Jay, C. (CoI), Wang, C. C. L. (CoI), Todd, C. (CoI), Soutis, C. (CoI), Arsene, C. (CoI), Dresner, D. (CoI), Barrett, E. (CoI), Gowen, E. (CoI), Arvin, F. (CoI), Podd, F. (CoI), Brown, G. (CoI), Reger, G. (CoI), Cooper, G. (CoI), Mairs, H. (CoI), Yin, H. (CoI), Kinloch, I. (CoI), Eleftheriou, I. (CoI), Li, J. (CoI), Carrasco Gomez, J. (CoI), Ainsworth, J. (CoI), Sinha, J. (CoI), Ozanyan, K. (CoI), Smith, K. (CoI), Twomey, K. (CoI), Margetts, L. (CoI), Ren, L. (CoI), Zhang, L. (CoI), Cordeiro, L. (CoI), Rattray, M. (PI), Bissett, M. (CoI), Elliot, M. (CoI), Alvarez, M. (CoI), Luján, M. (CoI), Nabawy BSc, MSc, PhD, MRAeS, SMAIAA, FHEA, M. (CoI), Peek, N. (CoI), Marjanovic, O. (CoI), Dorn, O. (CoI), Dudek, P. (CoI), Green, P. (CoI), Connolly, P. (CoI), Da Silva Bartolo, P. J. (CoI), Gardner, P. (CoI), Martin, P. (CoI), Potluri, P. (CoI), Curtis, R. (CoI), Schmidt, R. (CoI), Banach, R. (CoI), Batista-Navarro, R. T. (CoI), Kaski, S. (CoI), Midson, S. (CoI), Watson, S. (CoI), Holm, S. (CoI), Furber, S. (CoI), Schlegel, V. (CoI), Mirihanage, W. (CoI), Mansell, W. (CoI), Pan, W. (CoI), Sampson, W. (CoI), Sellers, W. (CoI), Yang, W. (CoI), Cai, P. (CoI), Sun, Y. (CoI), Alharthi, A. (Researcher), Macario Rojas, A. (Researcher), Serhan, B. (Researcher), Yu, C. (Researcher), Abara, D. (Researcher), Lopez Pulgarin, E. (Researcher), Faruq, F. (Researcher), Tavella, F. (Researcher), Semeraro, F. (Researcher), Liu, G. (Researcher), Fang, G. (Researcher), Niu, H. (Researcher), Taylor, H. (PI), Zhu, H. (PGR student), Collenette, J. (Researcher), Amano, K. (Researcher), Lo, K. C. J. (PGR student), Raggioli, L. (Researcher), Romeo, M. (Researcher), Ruocco, M. (PGR student), Ghaffari Saadat, M. (Researcher), Walmsley, M. (Researcher), Mubarik, A. (Researcher), Vinanzi, S. (Researcher), Su, Y.-H. (PGR student), McAleese, H. (PGR student), Stringer, P. (PGR student), Stoican, R. (PGR student), Ye, R. (PGR student), Kurawa, S. S. (PGR student), Zhang, T. (PGR student), Krywonos, W. (PGR student), Xu, Y. (PGR student), Tian, Y. (PGR student), Henderson, A. (Technical team), Morley, D. (Support team), Tallentire, J. (Support team), Smith, J. (Support team), Hawthornthwaite, S. (Support team), Carlson, J. (Support team) & Baniqued, P. D. (Researcher)
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Cardoso, R. C., Ferrando, A., Collenette, J., Dennis, L. A., & Fisher, M. (2023). Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents. In A. Ciortea, M. Dastani, & J. Luo (Eds.), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 11th International Workshop, EMAS 2023, Revised Selected Papers: International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 14378, pp. 3-22). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14378 LNAI). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48539-8_1

Cardoso, Rafael C. ; Ferrando, Angelo ; Collenette, Joe et al. / Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents. Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 11th International Workshop, EMAS 2023, Revised Selected Papers: International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. editor / Andrei Ciortea ; Mehdi Dastani ; Jieting Luo. Vol. 14378 Springer Nature, 2023. pp. 3-22 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Cardoso, RC, Ferrando, A, Collenette, J, Dennis, LA & Fisher, M 2023, Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents. in A Ciortea, M Dastani & J Luo (eds), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 11th International Workshop, EMAS 2023, Revised Selected Papers: International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. vol. 14378, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14378 LNAI, Springer Nature, pp. 3-22, 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, London, United Kingdom, 29/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48539-8_1

Towards Forward Responsibility in BDI Agents. / Cardoso, Rafael C.; Ferrando, Angelo ; Collenette, Joe et al.
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 11th International Workshop, EMAS 2023, Revised Selected Papers: International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. ed. / Andrei Ciortea; Mehdi Dastani; Jieting Luo. Vol. 14378 Springer Nature, 2023. p. 3-22 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14378 LNAI).

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