<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Just a quick reminder of tomorrow's talk: Prof. Jeremy Pitt (<a href="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pitt">http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pitt</a>) 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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 February 2018 at 14:50, Luca Rossi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.rossi@aston.ac.uk" target="_blank">l.rossi@aston.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Next Tuesday (13/02) Prof. Jeremy Pitt (<a href="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.pitt" target="_blank">http://www.imperial.ac.uk/<wbr>people/j.pitt</a>) 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.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Abstract:</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div class="m_888537517933901831gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.<wbr>uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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