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Open systems are often submitted to rules and norms in an attempt to guarantee its well functioning and prevent selfish (e.g. free-riding) or unsustainable (e.g. tragedy of the commons) behaviour. Associated to the norms, there is usually also a sanctioning structure responsible to prevent and punish non-compliance enforcing conformity. Without disregarding the importance of these structures, we investigate...
The increasing automation and capacity of communication of industrial systems brings new possibilities and challenges to the sector. We investigate a problem of distributed and collective supply and discuss solutions to the issue of fair and reliable decision making in open systems. By combining principles of social organisation with blockchain and smart-contract technologies, we show that it is possible...
Some open systems must address a standard resourceallocation problem: how to collectivise and distribute aset of common-pool resources, with respect to multiple criteriasuch as fairness, inclusivity and sustainability. Previous work inself-organising multi-agent systems formalised Nicholas Rescher'stheory of distributive justice so that agents could self-organise theallocation according to contextualised...
A well-known aphorism in English law can be summarised as: "not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done". In this paper, we consider the implications of this statement for a policy of distributed distributive justice intended to deliver 'fair' resource allocation in open multi-agent systems, in particular, where one designated agent is responsible for computing and declaring...
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