This position paper develops an algorithmic approach to deliberation as the basis for
institutional reflexivity. We propose the idea of algorithmic reflexive governance for socio …

Basic democracy has been proposed as a means of collective self-governance distinct from
liberal democracy, ie it is a conventional rule-based system of empowerment, decision …

We observe that SmartGrids are an example of a crossover point where cyber-physical
systems meet socio-technical systems. However, control of this crossover point, in the form …

In applying the methodology of sociologically-inspired computing to the idea of self-
governing institutions for common-pool resource management, an algorithmic basis for self …

The PetaJakarta. org project aims at advancing our capacity to understand and promote the
resilience of cities to both extreme weather events as a result of climate change and to long …

The performance of a Distributed Information Processing (DIP) unit in collectively answering
a question using the Regulatory Theory Social Influence (RTSI) can be evaluated against …

Most ethical systems define how the individuals ought morally act, being part of a society.
The process of elicitation of a moral theory governing the agents in a society requires them …

By restructuring and reconfiguring itself at run-time, a collective adaptive system (CAS) is
able to fulfill its requirements under uncertain, ever-changing environmental conditions …

It is now more than ten years since the EU FET project ALFEBIITE finished, during which its
researchers made original and distinctive contributions to (inter alia) formal models of trust …

Open systems typically occur in a wide range of applications, from virtual organisations and
vehicular networks to cloud/grid computing and reconfigurable manufacturing. All these …