In recent years, autonomous systems have become an important research area and
application domain, with a significant impact on modern society. Such systems are
characterized by different levels of autonomy and complex communication infrastructures
that allow for collective decision-making strategies. There exist several publications that
tackle ethical aspects in such systems, but mostly from the perspective of a single agent. In
this paper we go one step further and discuss these ethical challenges from the perspective …

In recent years, autonomous systems have become an important research area and
application domain, with a significant impact on modern society. Such systems are
characterized by different levels of autonomy and complex communication infrastructures
that allow for collective decision-making strategies. There exist several publications that
tackle ethical aspects in such systems, but mostly from the perspective of a single agent. In
this paper we go one step further and discuss these ethical challenges from the perspective …