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Characterising Global Platforms: Centralised, Decentralised, Federated, and Grassroots
Ehud Shapiro
Global digital platforms are distributed systems designed to serve entire populations, with some already serving billions of people. Here we propose atomic transactions-based multi…
GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI (Full Version)
Ehud Shapiro
A grassroots platform is a multiagent distributed system in which multiple independent instances can form and operate independently of each other and of any global resource, yet ma…
Constitutional Consensus for Democratic Governance
Idit Keidar, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro +1
Permissionless-consensus-based Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are the prevailing paradigm for participant-governed digital organisations. As participants have verifi…
Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
We propose a framework for the fair democratic governance of federated digital communities that form and evolve dynamically, where small groups self-govern and larger groups are re…
Grassroots Platforms with Atomic Transactions: Social Networks, Cryptocurrencies, and Democratic Federations
Ehud Shapiro
Grassroots platforms aim to offer an egalitarian alternative to global platforms. Whereas global platforms can have only a single instance, grassroots platforms can have multiple i…
Morpheus Consensus: Excelling on trails and autobahns
Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Recent research in consensus has often focussed on protocols for State-Machine-Replication (SMR) that can handle high throughputs. Such state-of-the-art protocols (generally DAG-ba…