Delegation in a Role-Based Organization

Pacheco, Olga; Santos, Filipe

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25927-5_14

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“…In the literature, some works [13,18,6] have studied the issue of the delegation of obligations, such as the share, the transfer or the split of obligations, others [5,17,20,12] have focused on the definition of responsibilities, such as direct, causal or task-based responsibility, and in [7] authors have addressed the issue of accountability within delegation protocols. But, none of them has explored the delegation of responsibility as we have done in this paper.…”

Section: Related Work and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We introduce causal responsibility by indirect influence, which captures the fact that this obligation can be further delegated. CRII a p (reading "a is causally responsible, by indirect influence, for p") means that there is a chain of delegated obligations on p between a and some agent b, that b is materially responsible for p, and that this is not a causal responsibility by direct influence (13). Causal responsibility by direct influence and by indirect influence are then grouped in a same "causal responsibility by influence" CRI a p (14).…”

Section: Modelling Obligation Delegationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility

Ghorbel

Cuppens

Cuppens-Boulahia

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. In this paper, we discuss the issue of responsibilities related to the fulfillment and the violation of obligations. We propose to formally define the different aspects of responsibility, namely causal responsibility, functional responsibility, liability as well as sanctions, and to examine how delegation influences these concepts. Our main aim is to identify the responsibility of each agent that is involved in the delegation of obligations. More precisely, we try to answer to the following questions: who is responsible for the obligation fulfillment? When a violation occurs, which agents are causally responsible for this violation? Who is liable for this violation and to whom? And finally, who must be sanctioned?

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Section: Related Work and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Modelling Obligation Delegationmentioning

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Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility

Ghorbel

Cuppens

Cuppens-Boulahia

et al. 2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…In the literature [6,15,19,20], many studies have been done on the modeling of obligations and some of them have considered the delegation of obligations, such as [10,18,23]. But, none of them have covered the topics discussed in this paper.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…For instance, governmental obligations such as the payment of tax or traffic offense fine are mandatory and in the case of violation, can impose heavy financial burdens. Therefore, we also propose the use of obligation delegation [10,18,23,3]. For instance, when a user is not available, he/she can delegate the payment of his/her traffic offense fine or electricity bill to another user.…”

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confidence: 99%

Negotiating and delegating obligations

Ben-Ghorbel-Talbi

Cuppens

Cuppens-Boulahia

2010

Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

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In this paper, we describe a security model where users are allowed to control their obligations partially or totally, depending on the security policy. The main motivation of our work is to design more flexible systems that take into account users' requirements in order to avoid obligation violations and therefore sanctions. In our model, users are able to negotiate or delegate their obligations in the case of incapacity to fulfill them. This is an important aspect to be considered, since it is common that, at work or in everyday life, a user may need to negotiate the fulfillment of a given obligation, or also need the help of others to perform a task on his/her behalf. This may be due to several reasons such as absence, vacation, conflict of interest, lack of time, of resource, of competence or simply for the sake of efficiency. In our model, we propose an approach to deal with the negotiation and the delegation of obligations based on the concept of contexts.

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“…Pacheco and Santos [37], for example, discuss the delegation of obligations among roles. In particular, they argue that when an obligation is delegated, a corresponding permissions must be delegated too.…”

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Substantive and procedural norms in normative multiagent systems

Boella

Torre

2008

Journal of Applied Logic

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Procedural norms are instrumental norms addressed to agents playing a role in the normative system, for example to motivate these role playing agents to recognize violations or to apply sanctions. Procedural norms have first been discussed in law, where they address legal practitioners such as legislators, lawyers and policemen, but they are discussed now too in normative multiagent systems to motivate software agents. Procedural norms aim to achieve the social order specified using regulative norms like obligations and permissions, and constitutive norms like counts-as obligations. In this paper we formalize procedural, regulative and constitutive norms using input/output logic enriched with an agent ontology and an abstraction hierarchy. We show how our formalization explains Castelfranchi's notion of mutual empowerment, stating that not only the agents playing a role in a normative system are empowered by the normative system, but the normative system itself is also empowered by the agents playing a role in it. In our terminology, the agents are not only institutionally empowered, but they are also delegated normative goals from the system. Together, institutional empowerment and normative goal delegation constitute a mechanism which we call delegation of power, where agents acting on behalf of the normative system become in charge of recognizing which institutional facts follow from brute facts.

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Delegation in a Role-Based Organization

Cited by 10 publications

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Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility

Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility

Negotiating and delegating obligations

Substantive and procedural norms in normative multiagent systems

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