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Fair decomposition of group obligations

Alechina, Natasha; Hoek, Wiebe van der; Logan, Brian

Authors

Natasha Alechina

Wiebe van der Hoek

Brian Logan



Abstract

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.

Citation

Alechina, N., Hoek, W. V. D., & Logan, B. (2017). Fair decomposition of group obligations. Journal of Logic and Computation, 27(7), 2043-2062. https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exx012

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 7, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 24, 2017
Publication Date Oct 1, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 8, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Logic and Computation
Print ISSN 0955-792X
Electronic ISSN 1465-363X
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 7
Pages 2043-2062
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exx012
Keywords Multi-Agent Systems, Group obligations, Group norms, Effectiveness, Fairness, Minimality of norms
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/885031
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/3084639
Additional Information This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Logic and Computation following peer review. The version of record Natasha Alechina, Wiebe van der Hoek, Brian Logan; Fair decomposition of group obligations, Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 27, Issue 7, 1 October 2017, Pages 2043–2062, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exx012 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exx012

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