Stages of autonomy determination

Author

Hexmoor, Henry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Comput. Eng., Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville, AR, USA

Volume

31

Issue

4

fYear

2001

fDate

11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

509

Lastpage

517

Abstract

We discuss stages of autonomy determination for software agents that manage and manipulate knowledge in organizations that house other software agents and human knowledge workers. We suggest recognition of potential autonomies in the belief-desire-intention (BDI) paradigm and actual reasoning about autonomy choice decision theoretically. We show how agents might revise their autonomies in light of one another´s autonomy and might also experience new, derived autonomies. We discuss the conditions under which an entire group of agents might have a collective autonomy attitude toward agents outside their group. We believe group attitudes are a novel concept and form a strong basis for developing theories of dynamic organizational structure. We briefly sketch an outline of a case study that motivates reasoning about autonomies

Keywords

belief networks; business data processing; data warehouses; decision theory; software agents; autonomy choices; autonomy determination; belief-desire-intention paradigm; case study; collective autonomy attitude; decision theory; derived autonomies; dynamic organizational structure; group attitudes; human knowledge workers; knowledge management; multiagent systems; software agents; Biology computing; Collaboration; Computer science; Humans; Knowledge management; Multiagent systems; Power engineering computing; Sociology; Software agents; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1094-6977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5326.983934

Filename

983934