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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2051/preface.pdf
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio,
Roberto Micalizio (eds.)
Computational
Accountability and
Responsibility in
Multiagent Systems
First Workshop, CARe-MAS 2017
co-located with 20th International Conference
on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Sys-
tems (PRIMA 2017)
Nice, France, October 31st, 2017
Workshop Notes
CARe-MAS 2017 Home Page:
http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/CAREMAS17/
Preface
Individual and organizational actions have social consequences that call for the
implementation of recommendations of good conduct at multiple levels of gran-
ularity. For firms, business ethics is the essence of a healthy society (OECD
reports) and, indeed, a growing number of companies issue voluntary codes of
conduct to commit to values like legal compliance, accountability, privacy, and
trust. Government agencies, on the other side, identify transparency as a key
value that promotes accountability, public participation, collaboration, and ef-
fectiveness. United Nations continuously stress “the need for a robust, yet flex-
ible, accountability framework to assess progress and achieve results, as well as
ensure that all actors honour their commitments” (General Assembly President
John Ashe, 2014).
The CARe-MAS Workshop aims at providing a discussion forum for re-
searchers and practitioners who are investigating issues related to computational
accountability and responsibility in multi-agent systems. In other words, CARe-
MAS concerns the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques and approaches –
with particular care to multiagent systems– to help supporting the realization
of accountability frameworks which, in turn, help organizations to respect their
commitments, help individuals in organizing their work, help managers in taking
decisions, improve infrastructure and procedures, and so forth. The development
of such specialized management systems introduces challenges and requirements
for handling ethical issues, e.g. serving the requirements of transparency, ac-
countability, and privacy preservation. We believe that such challenges can be
faced with the support of intelligent systems, with plenty of potential appli-
cations in fields like finance and business transactions, fair business practices,
resource management, consumer protection, economic systems, corruption, sales
and marketing, health care, public administration, smart cities, and decision
support.
The CARe-MAS Workshop is the conclusive event of the two-year project
AThOS1 (Accountable Trustworthy Organizations and Systems), and is held as a
full day workshop co-located with the PRIMA conference in Nice, France on Oc-
tober 31st , 2017. The workshop receive 6 submissions, each of which had at least
three reviews. The program also includes two invited talks. The first “Account-
ability by Dialogue: a new approach to data protection” by dr. Joris Hulstijn
from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). The second “How to Approach the
Problem of Coming to Responsible Intelligent Systems?” by Jan Broersen from
Utrecht Univeristy (The Netherlands).
We are confident that the talks offer an interesting perspective of the work
that has been done about accountability in from a computational perspective,
and they will also offer the opportunity for fruitful and interesting discussions.
1
http://di.unito.it/athos
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We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their
excellent work during the reviewing phase. We also acknowledge the EasyChair
conference management system that –as usual– provided its reliable and useful
support of the workshop organization process. Moreover, we would like to thank
the members of the Steering Committee of PRIMA for their valuable suggestions
and support.
January 16th, 2018
Matteo Baldoni
Cristina Baroglio
Roberto Micalizio
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Workshop Organisers
Matteo Baldoni University of Torino, Italy
Cristina Baroglio University of Torino, Italy
Roberto Micalizio University of Torino, Italy
Programme Committee
Marco Alberti DMI - University of Ferrara
Olivier Boissier ENS Mines Saint-Etienne
Jan Broersen Utrecht University
Barbara Carminati University of Insubria
Cristiano Castelfranchi Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Amit Chopra University of Lancaster
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University
Virginia Dignum TU Delft
Joris Hulstijn Tilburg University
Nadin Kokciyan Bogazici University
Emiliano Lorini IRIT
Felipe Meneguzzi Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Antonio Carlos Rocha Costa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
Jean-Claude Royer Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Marija Slavkovik University of Bergen
M. Birna van Riemsdijk TU Delft
Pinar Yolum Bogazici University
Acknowledgements
The organizers were partially supported by the Accountable Trustworthy Orga-
nizations and Systems (AThOS) project, funded by Università degli Studi di
Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP 2014).
Table of Contents
Invited Talks
Accountability by Dialogue: A New Approach to Data Protection . . . . . . . 1
Joris Hulstijn
How to Approach the Problem of Coming to Responsible Intelligent
Systems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Jan M. Broersen
Contributed Papers
The AThOS Project: First Steps towards Computational Accountability . 3
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio
Instrumenting Accountability in MAS with Blockchain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Fernando G. Papi, Jomi F. Hübner, Maiquel de Brito
Towards the Specification of Natural Language Accountability Policies
with AccLab: The Laptop Policy Use Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Walid Benghabrit, Jean-Claude Royer, Anderson Santana De Oliveira
Requirements for a Temporal Logic of Daily Activities for Supportive
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Malte S. Kliess, M. Birna van Riemsdijk
Open Data for Accountability in the Fight Against Corruption . . . . . . . . . 52
Joris Hulstijn, Darusalam Darusalam, Marijn Janssen
Classifying the Autonomy and Morality of Artificial Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Sjur Dyrkolbotn, Truls Pedersen, Marija Slavkovik
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84