5 papers
Democracy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Evangelos Pournaras, Srijoni Majumdar, Carina Hausladen +1
Interfacing Artificial Intelligence (AI) with democracy is one of the most profound challenges of our times. On the one hand, AI comes with opportunities to overcome long-standing…
Agentic Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Auditable Commercial Registry Analysis
Arthur Capozzi, Dirk Helbing
Public commercial registries are formally open, yet their practical analysis remains difficult because relevant facts are scattered across millions of records that combine structur…
Beyond the Townhall: Spatial Anchoring and LLM Agents for Scalable Participatory Urban Planning
Carina I Hausladen, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Michael Siebenmann +3
Participatory urban planning is central to sustainable city-making, yet the technically demanding nature of such interventions often limits meaningful involvement by diverse public…
A Replica for our Democracies? On Using Digital Twins to Enhance Deliberative Democracy
Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Dirk Helbing +2
Deliberative democracy depends on carefully designed institutional frameworks, such as participant selection, facilitation methods, and decision-making mechanisms, that shape how d…
Breaking the Code: Multi-level Learning in the Eurovision Song Contest
LuÃs A. Nunes Amaral, Arthur Capozzi, Dirk Helbing
Organizations learn from the market, political, and societal responses to their actions. While in some cases both the actions and responses take place in an open manner, in many ot…