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Costa PM, Galvao T, Falcao e Cunha J, et al., 2015, How to Support the Design and Development of Interactive Pervasive Environments, 8th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 278-284, ISSN: 2158-2246
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Chen M, McArthur SDJ, Kockar I, et al., 2015, Evaluating a MAS Architecture for Flexible Distribution Power Flow Management, 2015 18th International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), Publisher: IEEE
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Macbeth S, Pitt JV, 2014, Self-organising management of user-generated data and knowledge, Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol: 30, Pages: 237-264, ISSN: 1469-8005
The proliferation of sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing has provided the technological push for a new class of participatory-sensing applications, based on sensing and aggregating user-generated content, and transforming it into knowledge. However, given the power and value of both the raw data and the derived knowledge, to ensure that the generators are commensurate beneficiaries, we advocate an open approach to the data and intellectual property rights by treating user-generated content, as well as derived information and knowledge, as a common-pool resource. In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of experimental, commercial and social participatory sensory applications, from which we identify that a decentralised, community-oriented governance model is required to support this approach. Furthermore, we show that Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework, in conjunction with a framework for self-organising electronic institutions, can be used to give both an architecture and algorithmic base for the requisite governance model, in terms of operational and collective-choice rules specified in computational logic. This provides, we believe, the foundations for engineering knowledge commons for the next generation of participatory-sensing applications, in which the data generators are also the primary beneficiaries.
Pitt J, Busquets D, Macbeth S, 2014, Distributive justice for self-organised common-pool resource management, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol: 9, Pages: 1-24, ISSN: 1556-4665
In this article, we complement Elinor Ostrom’s institutional design principles for enduring common-pool resource management with Nicholas Rescher’s theory of distributive justice based on the canon of legitimate claims. Two of Ostrom’s principles are that the resource allocation method should be congruent with the local environment, and that those affected by the allocation method (the appropriators) should participate in its selection. However, these principles do not say anything explicitly about the fairness of the allocation method or the outcomes it produces: for this, we need a mechanism for distributive justice. Rescher identified a number of different mechanisms, each of which had both its merits and demerits, and instead maintained that distributive justice consisted in identifying the legitimate claims in context, accommodating multiple claims in case of plurality, and reconciling them in case of conflict. Accordingly, we specify a logical axiomatisation of the principles with the canon of legitimate claims, whereby a set of claims is each represented as a voting function, which collectively determine the rank order in which resources are allocated. The appropriators vote on the weight attached to the scoring functions, and so self-organise the allocation method, taking into account both the plurality of and conflict between the claims. Therefore, the appropriators exercise collective choice over the method, and the method itself is congruent with the local environment, taking into account both the resources available and the relative claims of the appropriators. Experiments with a variant of the linear public good game show that this pluralistic self-organising approach produces a better balance of utility and fairness (for agents that comply with the rules of the game) compared to monistic or fixed approaches, provide “fairness over time” (a series of ostensibly unfair individual allocations is revealed to be cumulatively fa
Pitt J, Nowak A, 2014, The Reinvention of Social Capital for Socio-Technical Systems, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE, Vol: 33, Pages: 27-+, ISSN: 0278-0097
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Perakslis C, Pitt J, Michael K, 2014, Drones Humanus, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE, Vol: 33, Pages: 38-39, ISSN: 0278-0097
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Pitt J, Diaconescu A, Bollier D, 2014, Technology for Collective Action INTRODUCTION, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE, Vol: 33, Pages: 32-34, ISSN: 0278-0097
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Petruzzi PE, Busquets D, Pitt J, 2014, Visualisation of Social Capital, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 189-190, ISSN: 1949-3673
Kohler T, Steghoefer J-P, Busquets D, et al., 2014, The Value of Fairness: Trade-offs in Repeated Dynamic Resource Allocation, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 1-10, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Petruzzi PE, Busquets D, Pitt J, 2014, Social Capital as a Complexity Reduction Mechanism for Decision Making in Large Scale Open Systems, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 145-150, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Riveret R, Nepomuceno EG, Pitt J, et al., 2014, Self-Governance by Transfiguration: From Learning to Prescription Changes, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 70-79, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Bourazeri A, Pitt J, 2014, Social Mpower: A Serious Game for Self-Organisation in Socio-Technical Systems, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 199-200, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Bourazeri A, Pitt J, 2014, A Game-Based Approach for Collective Action in Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems, 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 175-176, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Cabri G, Hart E, Pitt J, 2014, 3<i>rd</i> AWARE workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems, 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: XV-XVI
Bourazeri A, Pitt J, 2014, Collective Awareness for Collective Action in Socio-Technical Systems, 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Self Adaptive and Self Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW 2014), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 90-95, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Holland S, Pitt J, Sanderson D, et al., 2014, Reasoning and Reflection in the Game of Nomic: Self-Organising Self-Aware Agents with Mutable Rule-Sets, 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 102-107
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Bourazeri A, Pitt J, 2014, An Agent-Based Serious Game for Decentralised Community Energy Systems, 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA), Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Pages: 246-253, ISSN: 0302-9743
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Petruzzi PE, Busquets D, Pitt J, 2014, Experiments with Social Capital in Multi-agent Systems, 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA), Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Pages: 18-33, ISSN: 0302-9743
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Petruzzi PE, Busquets D, Pitt J, 2014, Self Organising Flexible Demand for Smart Grid, 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 22-23
Pitt J, Bourazeri A, Nowak A, et al., 2013, Transforming Big Data into Collective Awareness, Computer, Vol: 46, Pages: 40-45, ISSN: 0018-9162
Pitt J, Bourazeri A, Nowak A, et al., 2013, Transforming Big Data into Collective Awareness, COMPUTER, Vol: 46, Pages: 40-45, ISSN: 0018-9162
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Kakkasageri MS, Manvi SS, Pitt J, 2013, Cognitive Agent Based Critical Information Gathering and Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, WIRELESS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 69, Pages: 1107-1129, ISSN: 0929-6212
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Jones AJI, Artikis A, Pitt J, 2013, The design of intelligent socio-technical systems, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, Vol: 39, Pages: 5-20, ISSN: 0269-2821
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Pitt J, Busquets D, Riveret R, 2013, Formal Models of Social Processes: The Pursuit of Computational Justice in Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 269-270, ISSN: 1949-3673
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Sanderson D, Pitt J, Busquets D, 2013, Interactions of Multiple Self-Adaptive Mechanisms in Multi-Agent Systems, 12th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 301-308
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Pitt J, Schaumeier J, Artikis A, 2013, Axiomatisation of Socio-Economic Principles for Self-Organising Institutions: Concepts, Experiments and Challenges, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
Shum SB, Aberer K, Schmidt A, et al., 2012, Towards a global participatory platform Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS, Vol: 214, Pages: 109-152, ISSN: 1951-6355
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Pitt J, 2012, Design Contractualism for Pervasive/Affective Computing, IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE, Vol: 31, Pages: 22-+, ISSN: 0278-0097
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Bernard Y, Klejnowski L, Mueller-Schloer C, et al., 2012, Enduring Institutions and Self-Organising Trust-Adaptive Systems for an Open Grid Computing Infrastructure, 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 163-168, ISSN: 1949-3673
Sanderson D, Busquets D, Pitt J, 2012, A Micro-Meso-Macro Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems, 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASO), Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 77-82, ISSN: 1949-3673
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- Citations: 6
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