Delegation and mental states

In the recent literature on multiagent systems there have been several proposals of formal systems for reasoning about delegation. Most of these approaches have dealt with the concept of delegation leaving mental states such as beliefs, goals and intentions out of consideration. The aim of this paper is to develop a formal approach for reasoning about delegation by modeling intentions and beliefs of the delegating agent in an explicit way. We present a logic where it is possible to investigate the relations between the concept of Intention to be and the concept of Delegation. © 2007 IFAAMAS.