Social Deliberation vs. Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary Organisations

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Autores principales: Scott, Matthew, Mertzani, Asimina, Smit, Ciske, Sarkadi, Stefan, Pitt, Jeremy
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Publicado: 2024
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author Scott, Matthew
Mertzani, Asimina
Smit, Ciske
Sarkadi, Stefan
Pitt, Jeremy
author_facet Scott, Matthew
Mertzani, Asimina
Smit, Ciske
Sarkadi, Stefan
Pitt, Jeremy
contents Self-organising multi-agent systems regulate their components' behaviour voluntarily, according to a set of socially-constructed, mutually-agreed, and mutable social arrangements. In some systems, these arrangements may be applied with a frequency, at a scale and within implicit cost constraints such that performance becomes a pressing issue. This paper introduces the \textit{Megabike Scenario}, which consists of a negotiated agreement on a relatively 'large' set of conventional rules, 'frequent' 'democratic' decision-making according to those rules, and a resource-bounded imperative to reach 'correct' decisions. A formalism is defined for effective rule representation and processing in the scenario, and is evaluated against five interleaved socio-functional requirements. System performance is also evaluated empirically through simulation. We conclude that to self-organise their social arrangements, agents need some awareness of their own limitations and the value of compromise.
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spellingShingle Social Deliberation vs. Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary Organisations
Scott, Matthew
Mertzani, Asimina
Smit, Ciske
Sarkadi, Stefan
Pitt, Jeremy
Multiagent Systems
I.2.11
Self-organising multi-agent systems regulate their components' behaviour voluntarily, according to a set of socially-constructed, mutually-agreed, and mutable social arrangements. In some systems, these arrangements may be applied with a frequency, at a scale and within implicit cost constraints such that performance becomes a pressing issue. This paper introduces the \textit{Megabike Scenario}, which consists of a negotiated agreement on a relatively 'large' set of conventional rules, 'frequent' 'democratic' decision-making according to those rules, and a resource-bounded imperative to reach 'correct' decisions. A formalism is defined for effective rule representation and processing in the scenario, and is evaluated against five interleaved socio-functional requirements. System performance is also evaluated empirically through simulation. We conclude that to self-organise their social arrangements, agents need some awareness of their own limitations and the value of compromise.
title Social Deliberation vs. Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary Organisations
topic Multiagent Systems
I.2.11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16329