Migrating agents: do sysadmins have a license to kill?

This paper is based on results of the ALIAS research project in which legal experts, computer scientists and AI experts aim to increase the understanding of the legal and technical implications of the use of mobile software agents A number of legal and technical issues concerning the implications of hosting mobile, possibly hostile agents are addresse

Art games: interactivity and the embodied gaze

Agent Technology is entering into the field of law. E-commerce is one area in which agent technology plays an important role. The legal implications regarding the use of agent technology are, however, not Always clear. The ALIAS project focuses o

ALIAS: Analysing Legal Implications and Agent Information Systems

This document describes the exploratory results from the ALIAS project, without claiming exhaustiveness. A number of problems are identified (e.g., in relation to open-ended systems, free for all to join, and closed systems with controlled access) and directions for future research are indicated. Chapter 1 is structured as follows. Section 1.1 describes the goals and structure of the ALIAS project. Section 1.2 defines the concept of a software agent. Section 1.3 describes the role of the law and legal aspects in relation to software agents. Section 1.4 introduces a conceptual model for Law and Computer Science, which forms the basis for the structure of this document, as described in Section 1.