Engineering Multiagent Organizations by Accountability and Responsibility

Basing upon multi-agent systems, we show that an explicitrepresentation of accountabilities and responsibility assumptions givesthe right abstractions for properly specifying who should provide feed-back to whom, about the execution of its duties, both at the level ofdesign and at the level of programming. For the latter, we explain a pro-gramming pattern for developing accountable agents, and illustrate theapproach inJaCaMo. The paper takes into account business processes asa motivating scenario.