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Mapping deontic operators to abductive expectations

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  • Marco Alberti

    (Università di Ferrara—Via Saragat)

  • Marco Gavanelli

    (Università di Ferrara—Via Saragat)

  • Evelina Lamma

    (Università di Ferrara—Via Saragat)

  • Paola Mello

    (Università di Bologna—Viale Risorgimento)

  • Paolo Torroni

    (Università di Bologna—Viale Risorgimento)

  • Giovanni Sartor

    (Università di Bologna—Via Galliera)

Abstract

Deontic concepts and operators have been widely used in several fields where representation of norms is needed, including legal reasoning and normative multi-agent systems. The EU-funded SOCS project has provided a language to specify the agent interaction in open multi-agent systems. The language is equipped with a declarative semantics based on abductive logic programming, and an operational semantics consisting of a (sound and complete) abductive proof procedure. In the SOCS framework, the specification is used directly as a program for the verification procedure. In this paper, we propose a mapping of the usual deontic operators (obligations, prohibition, permission) to language entities, called expectations, available in the SOCS social framework. Although expectations and deontic operators can be quite different from a philosophical viewpoint, we support our mapping by showing a similarity between the abductive semantics for expectations and the Kripke semantics that can be given to deontic operators. The main purpose of this work is to make the computational machinery from the SOCS social framework available for the specification and verification of systems by means of deontic operators.

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  • Marco Alberti & Marco Gavanelli & Evelina Lamma & Paola Mello & Paolo Torroni & Giovanni Sartor, 2006. "Mapping deontic operators to abductive expectations," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 205-225, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:comaot:v:12:y:2006:i:2:d:10.1007_s10588-006-9544-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s10588-006-9544-8
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