Agent Protocols for Social Computation

Abstract: Despite the fact that social computation systems involve interaction mechanisms that closely resemble well-known models of agent coordination, current applications in this area make little or no use of the techniques the agent-based systems literature has to offer. In Continue reading

SmartSociety – A Platform for Collaborative People-Machine Computation

Abstract: Society is moving towards a socio-technical ecosystem in which physical and virtual dimensions of life are intertwined and where people interactions ever more take place with or are mediated by machines. Hybrid Diversity-aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) is a 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