Concept: Permission

The Permission concept is mainly aimed at: (i) identifying the resources that can be used to carry out a role—intuitively, they say what can be spent while carrying out the role; and (ii) stating the resource limits within which the role must operate—intuitively, they say what can’t be spent while carrying out the role. In general, permissions relate agent roles. See Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology (p. 342-343) for more information about this concept.