Legal and ethical implications of applications based on agreement technologies: the case of auction-based road intersections
<|reference_start|>Legal and ethical implications of applications based on agreement technologies: the case of auction-based road intersections: Agreement Technologies refer to a novel paradigm for the construction of distributed intelligent systems, where autonomous software agents negotiate to reach agreements on behalf of their human users. Smart Cities are a key application domain for Agreement Technologies. While several proofs of concept and prototypes exist, such systems are still far from ready for being deployed in the real-world. In this paper we focus on a novel method for managing elements of smart road infrastructures of the future, namely the case of auction-based road intersections. We show that, even though the key technological elements for such methods are already available, there are multiple non-technical issues that need to be tackled before they can be applied in practice. For this purpose, we analyse legal and ethical implications of auction-based road intersections in the context of international regulations and from the standpoint of the Spanish legislation. From this exercise, we extract a set of required modifications, of both technical and legal nature, which need to be addressed so as to pave the way for the potential real-world deployment of such systems in a future that may not be too far away.<|reference_end|>
@article{santos2024legal,
    title={Legal and ethical implications of applications based on agreement
  technologies: the case of auction-based road intersections},
    author={Jos'e-Antonio Santos, Alberto Fern'andez, Mar Moreno-Rebato, Holger
  Billhardt, Jos'e-A. Rodr'iguez-Garc'ia, Sascha Ossowski},
    journal={Artif. Intell. Law 28(4): 385-414 (2020)},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1007/s10506-019-09259-8},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.01673},
    primaryClass={cs.CY cs.AI}
}