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7 papers
Belief Engine: Configurable and Inspectable Stance Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation
Joshua C. Yang, Maurice Flechtner, Damian Dailisan +1
LLM-based agents are increasingly used to simulate deliberative interactions such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and multi-turn opinion exchange. Yet generated transcripts of…
Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Joshua C. Yang, Noemi Scheurer
Public funding processes demand fairness, learning, and outcomes that participants can understand. We introduce Komitee Equal Shares, a priceable virtual-budget allocation framewor…
Upgrading Democracies with Fairer Voting Methods
Evangelos Pournaras, Srijoni Majumdar, Thomas Wellings +4
Voting methods are instrumental design elements of democracies. Citizens use them to express and aggregate their preferences to reach a collective decision. However, voting outcome…
Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee
Joshua C. Yang, Fynn Bachmann
Democratic processes increasingly aim to integrate large-scale voting with face-to-face deliberation, addressing the challenge of reconciling individual preferences with collective…
LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making
Joshua C. Yang, Damian Dailisan, Marcin Korecki +2
This paper investigates the voting behaviors of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4 and LLaMA-2, their biases, and how they align with human voting patterns. Our metho…
A Taxonomy for Blockchain-based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
Mark C. Ballandies, Hongyang Wang, Andrew Chung Chee Law +3
As digitalization and technological advancements continue to shape the infrastructure landscape, the emergence of blockchain-based decentralized physical infrastructure networks (D…
Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting
Joshua C. Yang, Carina I. Hausladen, Dominik Peters +3
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has evolved into a key democratic instrument for resource allocation in cities. Enabled by digital platforms, cities now have the opportunity to let ci…