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Legal Consequences of Agent Deployment

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Multiagent Engineering

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The following chapter discusses various legal aspects concerning the implementation and usage of (software) agents. The underlying question if and how agents can issue legally effective declarations of intention is paramount in order to enable any reasonable usage of agents and, therefore, evaluated in greater detail in Section 3.2. Furthermore, the issue of how to deal with potential errors in agents’ declarations (Section 3.3), the requirements of agents’ signatures (Section 3.4) as well as liability (Section 3.5) and consumer protection issues (Section 3.6) are discussed. Finally, data protection issues and their implications on the usage of agents (Section 3.7) are scrutinized.

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  1. Institut für Informationsrecht, Zentrum für angewandte Rechtswissenschaft, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe

    Tanja Nitschke

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  1. Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim, Schwerzstraße 35, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Kirn

  2. Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Otthein Herzog

  3. Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Peter Lockemann

  4. Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstraße 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Otto Spaniol

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Nitschke, T. (2006). Legal Consequences of Agent Deployment. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_28

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