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title: "Rights, Duties and Commitments between Agents"
authors:
  - "Leendert W. N. van der Torre"
  - "Yao-Hua Tan"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/176"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0176.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1999
pages: "1239-1245"
track: "Software Agents"
keywords:
---

# Rights, Duties and Commitments between Agents

Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Yao-Hua Tan

*Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1239-1245.

## Abstract

In this paper we introduce a multi agent deontic update semantics, that builds on a logic of prescriptive obligations (norms) and a logic of descriptive obligations (normative propositions). In this preference-based logic we formalize rights as a new type of strong prescriptive permissions and duties and commitments as prescriptive obligations between agents.