[eas_cs_seminars] 13th February 2018

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Next Tuesday (13/02) Prof. Jeremy Pitt (
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pitt) will give a talk titled
"Interactional Justice vs. The Paradox of Self-Amendment and the Iron Law
of Oligarchy". The talk will take place in MB231 from 2pm to 3pm.

Abstract:
Self-organisation and self-governance offer an effective approach to
resolving collective action problems in multi-agent systems, such as fair
and sustainable resource allocation. Nevertheless, self-governing systems
which allow unrestricted and unsupervised self-modification expose
themselves to several risks, including Suber's paradox of self-amendment
(rules specify their own amendment) and Michel's iron law of oligarchy
(that the system will inevitably be taken over by a small clique and be run
for its own benefit, rather than in the collective interest). This talk
will present an algorithmic approach to resisting both the paradox and the
iron law, based on the idea of interactional justice derived from
sociological, political and organizational theory. The process of
interactional justice operationalised in this talk uses opinion formation
over a social network with respect to a shared set of congruent values, to
transform a set of individual, subjective self-assessments into a
collective, relative, aggregated assessment. Using multi-agent simulation,
we present some experimental results about detecting and resisting cliques.
We conclude with a discussion of some implications concerning institutional
reformation and stability, ownership of the means of coordination, and
knowledge management processes in `democratic' systems.

Best,
Luca
-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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