CrowdMask: Privacy-Preserving Crowd-Powered Systems

This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety. Abstract: It can be hard to automatically identify sensitive content in images or other media because significant context is often Continue reading

Improving Productivity in Citizen Science through Controlled Intervention

This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety. Abstract: The majority of volunteers participating in citizen science projects perform only a few tasks each before leaving the system. Continue reading

Multiagent Systems for Social Computation (challenge paper)

Smart Society’s M. Rovatsos has won second prize for best challenge and vision paper in AAMAS 2014! Abstract: This paper proposes social computation, i.e. large-scale man-machine collaboration mediated by digital interaction media, as a vision for future intelligent systems, and Continue reading

First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing, Call for Papers

May 5-9, 2014 @ Paris, France.

The First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing is Co-located with AAMAS 2014.

Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing — e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. This event invites papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways. Continue reading