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In this paper, we discuss the issue of responsibilities related to the fulfillment and the violation of obligations. We propose to formally define the different aspects of responsibility, namely causal responsibility, functional responsibility, liability as well as sanctions, and to examine how delegation influences these concepts. Our main aim is to identify the responsibility of each agent that is involved in the delegation of obligations. More precisely, we try to answer to the following questions: who is responsible for the obligation fulfillment? When a violation occurs, which agents are causally responsible for this violation? Who is liable for this violation and to whom? And finally, who must be sanctioned?
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Ben Ghorbel-Talbi, M., Cuppens, F., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Le Métayer, D., Piolle, G. (2011). Delegation of Obligations and Responsibility. In: Camenisch, J., Fischer-Hübner, S., Murayama, Y., Portmann, A., Rieder, C. (eds) Future Challenges in Security and Privacy for Academia and Industry. SEC 2011. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21424-0_16
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