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In an increasingly instrumented and inter-connected digital world, citizens generate vast amounts of data, much of it personal, and nearly all of it valuable. However, controlling who can collect it, limiting what they can do with it, and determining how best to protect it, remain deeply undecided issues. This position paper proposes a socio-technical solution based on collective awareness and informed...
In typical settings for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), a potentially large set of nodes operates under strict requirements concerning energy consumption and packet delivery success. If non-reliable or even malicious nodes participate, standard protocols can suffer in performance which may result in a limited functionality of the whole network. This paper addresses this issue by establishing end-to-end...
In this position paper, we argue that a new methodological paradigm and software platform is required for developing citizen-oriented social computing applications. The platform that we propose is based on the idea of 'Collective Intelligence as a Service', and is grounded in the formalisation of computational models derived from an empirical analysis of psychological processes and social practices...
This paper addresses the challenges involved with the engineering of self-adaptive and self-organizing collaborative socio-technical systems. By examining the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the problem and giving a brief insight into some exemplary applications, we argue that particularly the inclusion of sociological findings already at structural and algorithmic level is fundamental to the...
Socio-technical systems differ from typical MAS formulations in that efficiency of the system is not the only concern of the participating agents. Human attributes such as concern for social equity, lying and irrationality are also present, alongside the normal computation being undertaken by the agents. Typically, non-rational attributes are considered as noise and therefore not considered as important...
We propose secure multi-party computation techniques for the distributed computation of the average using a privacy-preserving extension of gossip algorithms. While recently there has been mainly research on the side of gossip algorithms (GA) for data aggregation itself, to the best of our knowledge, the aforementioned research line does not take into consideration the privacy of the entities involved...
An interrelation between a topological design of network and efficient algorithm on it is important for communication or transportation systems. In this paper, we propose a design principle for a reliable routing in a store-carry-forward manner based on autonomously moving message-ferries on a special structure of fractal-like network, which consists of a self-similar tiling of equilateral triangles...
Socio-technical systems are systems where autonomous humans and computational entities collectively collaborate with each other to satisfy their goals in a dynamic environment. To be resilient, such systems need to adapt to unexpected human behaviours and exogenous changes in the environment. In this paper, we describe a framework for the development of social-technical systems where adaptation is...
Large-scale self-organised systems, such as distributed community energy systems, have called for coordination approaches that are able to deal with issues such as heterogeneity, inter-dependence and dynamic variability. Holonic institutions have been proposed as an approach to converging the structuration required for multi-scale, multi-criteria optimisation in nested enterprises with the formal...
Modern software systems are often compositions of entities that increasingly use self-adaptive capabilities to improve their behavior to achieve systemic quality goals. Self adaptive managers for each component system attempt to provide locally optimal results, but if they cooperated and potentially coordinated their efforts it might be possible to obtain more globally optimal results. The emergent...
Driven by market trends towards highly-personalised products, the manufacturing industry is facing a variety of challenges that require systems to be adaptive, robust, resilient, and responsive. Collective adaptive systems have the potential to provide solutions to a wide variety of these problems. This paper has two main aims: to highlight shared problems between industry and the collective adaptive...
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