Founding Autonomy: The Dialectics between (Social) Environment and Agent’s Architecture and Powers

'Autonomy', with 'interaction' the central issue of the new Agent-based AI paradigm, has to be recollected to the internal and external powers and resources of the Agent. Internal resources are specified by the Agent architecture (and by skills, knowledge, cognitive capabilities, etc.); external resources are provided (or limited) by accessibility, competition, pro-social relations, and norms. 'Autonomy' is a relational and situated notion: the Agent -as for a given needed resource and for a goal to be achieved- is autonomous from the environment or from other Agents. Otherwise it is 'dependent' on them. We present this theory of Autonomy (independence, goal autonomy, norm autonomy, autonomy in delegation, discretion, control autonomy, etc.) and we examine how acting within a group or organization reduces and limits the Agent autonomy, but also how this may provide powers and resources and even increase the Autonomy of the Agent.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Castelfranchi, C.
Falcone R.
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin , Germania
Source: 
Lecture notes in computer science 2969 (2004): 40–54. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_4
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C.; Falcone R./titolo:Founding Autonomy: The Dialectics between (Social) Environment and Agent’s Architecture and Powers/doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_4/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2004/pagina_d
Date: 
2004
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/47049
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_4
info:doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_4
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Rino Falcone
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