Fair decomposition of group obligations
We consider the problem of decomposing a group norm into a set of individual obligations for the agents comprising the group, such that if the individual obligations are fulfilled, the group obligation is fulfilled. Such an assignment of tasks to agents is often subject to additional social or organ...
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| author | Alechina, Natasha Hoek, Wiebe van der Logan, Brian |
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| description | We consider the problem of decomposing a group norm into a set of individual obligations for the agents comprising the group, such that if the individual obligations are fulfilled, the group obligation is fulfilled. Such an assignment of tasks to agents is often subject to additional social or organisational norms that specify permissible ways in which tasks can be assigned. An important role of social norms is that they can be used to impose ‘fairness constraints’, which seek to distribute individual responsibility for discharging the group norm in a ‘fair’ or ‘equitable’ way. We propose a simple language for this kind of fairness constraints and analyse the problem of computing a fair decomposition of a group obligation, both for non-repeating and for repeating group obligations. |
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| spelling | nottingham-411582020-05-04T19:09:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41158/ Fair decomposition of group obligations Alechina, Natasha Hoek, Wiebe van der Logan, Brian We consider the problem of decomposing a group norm into a set of individual obligations for the agents comprising the group, such that if the individual obligations are fulfilled, the group obligation is fulfilled. Such an assignment of tasks to agents is often subject to additional social or organisational norms that specify permissible ways in which tasks can be assigned. An important role of social norms is that they can be used to impose ‘fairness constraints’, which seek to distribute individual responsibility for discharging the group norm in a ‘fair’ or ‘equitable’ way. We propose a simple language for this kind of fairness constraints and analyse the problem of computing a fair decomposition of a group obligation, both for non-repeating and for repeating group obligations. Oxford University Press 2017-10-01 Article PeerReviewed Alechina, Natasha, Hoek, Wiebe van der and Logan, Brian (2017) Fair decomposition of group obligations. Journal of Logic and Computation, 27 (7). pp. 2043-2062. ISSN 1465-363X Multi-Agent Systems Group obligations Group norms Effectiveness Fairness Minimality of norms https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/3084639 doi:10.1093/logcom/exx012 doi:10.1093/logcom/exx012 |
| spellingShingle | Multi-Agent Systems Group obligations Group norms Effectiveness Fairness Minimality of norms Alechina, Natasha Hoek, Wiebe van der Logan, Brian Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title | Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title_full | Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title_fullStr | Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title_short | Fair decomposition of group obligations |
| title_sort | fair decomposition of group obligations |
| topic | Multi-Agent Systems Group obligations Group norms Effectiveness Fairness Minimality of norms |
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