PREFACE PREFACE
PREFACE PREFACE
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前言 前言
DOI:
10.1515/9783110363234-003
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发表时间:
1998
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通讯作者:
Janaki Vallabh Shastn
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cRcftar ftcpr;Janaki Vallabh;Janaki Vallabh Shastri;Janaki Vallabh Shastn
In the last years there has been a significant and increasing convergence between research on multiagent systems and research on AI & Law. Not only results originated in one research community have been used by the other, but a number of researchers have been actively involved in both communities, contributing to an increasing cross-fertilisation. We believe that this trend is not taking place by mere chance; on the contrary it is rooted in the complementary nature of the two disciplines, and in the increasing significance or issues pertaining to their intersection (contracts between agents, the emergence of norms out of agents’ interactions, the establishment and enforcement of norms in agents’ societies). Research on multiagent systems requires the contribution of AI & Law when it addresses the issue of the coordination of autonomous agents. If such agents are really autonomous—namely if each one of them is trying to achieve ‘‘his own interest his own way’’ (Smith 1997, p. 687)—the issue of coordinating their interaction requires considering under what conditions such agents may interact without unduly damaging one another, while at the same time preserving and enhancing certain global properties (common interests) of the system as a whole. But this is exactly the social problem that the law has been trying to solve for thousands of year, by building a set of solutions (legal norms and institutions) and theories about them. This social problem necessarily emerges in each society of