@inproceedings{fa974a3abf004215bc7a6e52eb06bd20,
title = "Causality, responsibility and blame in team plans",
abstract = "Many objectives can be achieved (or may be achieved more effectively) only by a group of agents executing a team plan. If a team plan fails, it is often of interest to determine what caused the failure, the degree of responsibility of each agent for the failure, and the degree of blame attached to each agent. We show how team plans can be represented in terms of structural equations, and then apply the definitions of causality introduced by Halpern [11] and degree of responsibility and blame introduced by Chockler and Halpern [3] to determine the agent(s) who caused the failure and what their degree of responsibility/blame is. We also prove new results on the complexity of computing causality and degree of responsibility and blame, showing that they can be determined in polynomial time for many team plans of interest.",
keywords = "Blame, Causality, Responsibility, Team plans",
author = "Natasha Alechina and Halpern, {Joseph Y.} and Brian Logan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright 2017, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved.; 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, AAMAS 2017 ; Conference date: 08-05-2017 Through 12-05-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS",
publisher = "International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)",
pages = "1091--1099",
editor = "Sanmay Das and Edmund Durfee and Kate Larson and Michael Winikoff",
booktitle = "16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017",
address = "United Kingdom",
}