Organizational structure and responsibility Export

@article{Grossi:2007, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Aim of the present paper is to provide a formal characterization of various different notions of responsibility within groups of agents (Who did that? Who gets the blame? Who is accountable for that? etc.). To pursue this aim, the papers proposes an organic analysis of organized collective agency by tackling the issues of organizational structure, role enactment, organizational activities, task-division and task-allocation. The result consists in a semantic framework based on dynamic logic in which all these concepts can be represented and in which various notions of responsibility find a formalization. The background motivation of the work consists in those responsibility-related issues which are of particular interest for the theory and development of multi-agent systems.}, author = {Grossi, Davide and Royakkers, Lamb\`{e}r and Dignum, Frank}, citeulike-article-id = {3173451}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9054-0}, comment = {Recent organization theory. Deals with the concepts but not from a network perspective.}, doi = {10.1007/s10506-007-9054-0}, journal = {Artificial Intelligence and Law}, keywords = {decision\_making, delegation, economics, hierarchy, organization\_theory, topology}, number = {3}, pages = {223--249}, posted-at = {2008-08-29 16:19:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Organizational structure and responsibility}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9054-0}, volume = {15}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Grossi:2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3173451 N2 - Abstract  Aim of the present paper is to provide a formal characterization of various different notions of responsibility within groups of agents (Who did that? Who gets the blame? Who is accountable for that? etc.). To pursue this aim, the papers proposes an organic analysis of organized collective agency by tackling the issues of organizational structure, role enactment, organizational activities, task-division and task-allocation. The result consists in a semantic framework based on dynamic logic in which all these concepts can be represented and in which various notions of responsibility find a formalization. The background motivation of the work consists in those responsibility-related issues which are of particular interest for the theory and development of multi-agent systems. IS - 3 JF - Artificial Intelligence and Law EP - 249 TI - Organizational structure and responsibility VL - 15 SP - 223 KW - decision_making KW - delegation KW - economics KW - hierarchy KW - organization_theory KW - topology N1 - Recent organization theory. Deals with the concepts but not from a network perspective. AU - Grossi, Davide AU - Royakkers, Lambèr AU - Dignum, Frank PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10506-007-9054-0 ER -