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We discuss the limits of current agent organizations, and the benefits of introducing an explicit account of responsibility and accountability. We, then, illustrate how through such notions it is possible to design both organization specifications and organization entities, that are guaranteed to properly distribute responsibilities, that is, not only to own but also to connect the needed, distributed control over the goal so as to enable its achievement.
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Baldoni, M., Baroglio, C., Boissier, O., May, K.M., Micalizio, R., Tedeschi, S. (2018). Accountability and Responsibility in Agent Organizations. In: Miller, T., Oren, N., Sakurai, Y., Noda, I., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Cao Son, T. (eds) PRIMA 2018: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03098-8_16
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