Class: CommunicationWithAuthority
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- dcterms:description "A special kind of authority is the control relationship between two organizational agents. For OA1 to have authority over OA2 implies that OA1 is able to extract a commitment from OA2 to achieve a goal that is defined as part of OA2’s organization-roles. In order to extract that commitment, OA1 has to be related directly or indirectly by a communication-with-authority (CWA) link relation.
The Communication-with-Authority link, used when communication is intended to create obligations, specifies the two agents, one in the authority position (called supervisor) and the other in the controled position (called supervisee), among which communication takes place. Because we model communication as exchange of speech-acts, authority of an agent appears as the set of speech-acts this agent can use in order to create obligations for the other agent. For example, an agent may have authority to request another agent to perform action A1, but not to perform action A2. In this case, the second agent will have to commit to achieving A1 when requested by the first agent, but not A2." @en