Toward Modeling and Automating Ethical Decision Making: Design, Implementation, Limitations, and Responsibilities

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Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-250

  Reed, Gregory S ^a   Jones, Nicholaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Ethical judgment; Evil; Military; Modeling and simulation; Robotic systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884517697     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-012-9127-x     Document Type: Article

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