%0 Generic %1 citeulike:115880 %A Rodriguez, Marko %A Steinbock, Daniel %D 2004 %K socialnets application %T A Social Network for Societal-Scale Decision-Making Systems %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0412047 %X In societal-scale decision-making systems the collective is faced with the problem of ensuring that the derived group decision is in accord with the collective's intention. In modern systems, political institutions have instatiated representative forms of decision-making to ensure that every individual in the society has a participatory voice in the decision-making behavior of the whole--even if only indirectly through representation. An agent-based simulation demonstrates that in modern representative systems, as the ratio of representatives increases, there exists an exponential decrease in the ability for the group to behave in accord with the desires of the whole. To remedy this issue, this paper provides a novel representative power structure for decision-making that utilizes a social network and power distribution algorithm to maintain the collective's perspective over varying degrees of participation and/or ratios of representation. This work shows promise for the future development of policy-making systems that are supported by the computer and network infrastructure of our society.

@misc{citeulike:115880, abstract = {In societal-scale decision-making systems the collective is faced with the problem of ensuring that the derived group decision is in accord with the collective's intention. In modern systems, political institutions have instatiated representative forms of decision-making to ensure that every individual in the society has a participatory voice in the decision-making behavior of the whole--even if only indirectly through representation. An agent-based simulation demonstrates that in modern representative systems, as the ratio of representatives increases, there exists an exponential decrease in the ability for the group to behave in accord with the desires of the whole. To remedy this issue, this paper provides a novel representative power structure for decision-making that utilizes a social network and power distribution algorithm to maintain the collective's perspective over varying degrees of participation and/or ratios of representation. This work shows promise for the future development of policy-making systems that are supported by the computer and network infrastructure of our society.}, added-at = {2006-06-16T10:34:37.000+0200}, author = {Rodriguez, Marko and Steinbock, Daniel}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22a5ec84b05998fef3a2c4e586e32cbdf/ldietz}, citeulike-article-id = {115880}, comment = {"[...] a novel form in which the underlying social network of the collective is used to adjust the relative weight of representatives' opinions." --- Since only some representatives can participate in a decision (instead of e.g. all employees) we can weight the representatives' opinions by a factor of trust, that is calculated from the social network. Perhaps, each subject may choose a different representative for each subject --- rating: 2/5 nice idea, but the application seems to be not realistic.}, eprint = {cs.CY/0412047}, interhash = {18b15c9bbd3c28e2cf15a956dfda9a6b}, intrahash = {2a5ec84b05998fef3a2c4e586e32cbdf}, keywords = {socialnets application}, month = {December}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2006-06-16T10:34:37.000+0200}, title = {A Social Network for Societal-Scale Decision-Making Systems}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0412047}, year = 2004 }