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20202024
most citedThe cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks

15 citations · 26 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2024★ 3 cited

AI for bureaucratic productivity: Measuring the potential of AI to help automate 143 million UK government transactions

Vincent J. Straub, Youmna Hashem, Jonathan Bright +5

There is currently considerable excitement within government about the potential of artificial intelligence to improve public service productivity through the automation of complex…

cs.CY2023

Approaches to the Algorithmic Allocation of Public Resources: A Cross-disciplinary Review

Saba Esnaashari, Jonathan Bright, John Francis +3

Allocation of scarce resources is a recurring challenge for the public sector: something that emerges in areas as diverse as healthcare, disaster recovery, and social welfare. The…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

'Team-in-the-loop': Ostrom's IAD framework 'rules in use' to map and measure contextual impacts of AI

Deborah Morgan, Youmna Hashem, John Francis +3

This article explores how the 'rules in use' from Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) can be developed as a context analysis approach for AI. AI risk as…

cs.CY2023★ 2 cited

A multidomain relational framework to guide institutional AI research and adoption

Vincent J. Straub, Deborah Morgan, Youmna Hashem +3

Calls for new metrics, technical standards and governance mechanisms to guide the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in institutions and public administration are now commonp…

cs.CY2022★ 5 cited

Artificial intelligence in government: Concepts, standards, and a unified framework

Vincent J. Straub, Deborah Morgan, Jonathan Bright +1

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially in generative language modelling, hold the promise of transforming government. Given the advanced capabilities of new AI…

cs.CY2020

Beyond kinetic harm and towards a dynamic conceptualization of cyberterrorism

Vince J. Straub

After more than two decades of discussion, the concept of cyberterrorism remains plagued by confusion. This article presents the result of an integrative review which maps the deve…

cs.SI2020★ 15 cited

The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks

Vince J. Straub, Milena Tsvetkova, Taha Yasseri

Humans and other intelligent agents often rely on collective decision making based on an intuition that groups outperform individuals. However, at present, we lack a complete theor…