[eas_cs_seminars] 13th February 2018

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder of tomorrow's talk: 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.

Best,
Luca

On 6 February 2018 at 14:50, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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/>
>



-- 
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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