Functional rights and duties at the micro and macro
                           social levels
                                        Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa1 (invited speaker)


Abstract. This talk considers the issue of rights and duties in the
context of social relations based on persistent exchange processes,
occurring at both the micro and the macro social levels. Rights and
duties that acquire a functional nature in such context are charac-
terized in a tentative formal way. A possible connection between
functional rights and duties and the issue of morality as a regula-
tion mechanism for persistent micro social relations is investigated
in a preliminary way. The relevance of functional rights and duties at
the macro social level for the issue of the modularity of multiagent
systems is indicated.




1 Centro de Ciłncias Computacionais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande,
  Brasil, email: ac.rocha.costa@gmail.com