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		<rdfs:label><![CDATA[Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems]]></rdfs:label>
		<pub:title><![CDATA[Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems]]></pub:title>
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		<pub:abstract><![CDATA[Autonomous agentic AI systems driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce a new class of security, privacy, and compliance challenges: an agent that can invoke tools, manipulate data, install software, and coordinate with peer agents across organizational boundaries must be constrained not just by authentication and access control, but by the full structure of enterprise governance. This includes specifying what agents are permitted and prohibited from doing, what they are obliged to do after certain actions (e.g., notify the CISO), under what conditions a standing obligation may be waived, and which rules take precedence when policies conflict. This governance problem exceeds what the current policy engines provide. Systems such as XACML, Rego, and Cedar address only the permit/prohibit subset of this governance structure. They do not provide obligation lifecycle management, meta- policy conflict resolution, dispensations from policies in specific circumstances, and ontological reasoning over domain class hierarchies commonly found in applications such as healthcare, cybersecurity, or data privacy. We propose AgenticRei, which realizes key governance requirements such as obligations, dispensations, policy conflicts, and reasoning over policies, as well as the basic permit/prohibit constraints. We use a deontic policy language built on the Rei framework, expressed as OWL (Web Ontology Language) and evaluated at runtime by a high-performance logic engine entirely outside the LLM. The same pipeline governs both tool invocations by the agent and agent-to- agent messages. We show, through examples, that deontic policies capture governance constraints on security and privacy that cannot be expressed in current production engines. Our approach naturally complements industry-standard frameworks like A2AS.]]></pub:abstract>
		<pub:note><![CDATA[<img src="https://i.imgur.com/3Wzlae3.png" style='height: 70%; width: 70%; object-fit: contain; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;'> AgenticRei runtime architecture. Both tool-call interception and A2A message interception share the same PolicyEngine, AuditLogger, and ObligationManager.


Workshop held In conjunction with IEEE ICWS 2026 / IEEE SERVICES 2026, Sydney, Australia, July 2026.]]></pub:note>
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		<pub:booktitle><![CDATA[2026 IEEE Symposium on Agentic Services/ IEEE Conference on Web Services]]></pub:booktitle>
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