13 papers
GLP: A Grassroots, Multiagent, Concurrent, Logic Programming Language for AI
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 Governance in Metric Spaces
Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Computational social choice and algorithmic decision theory offer rich aggregation theory but no end-to-end process for egalitarian self-governance: aggregation, deliberation, amen…
Volition-Guarded Multiagent Atomic Transactions: Describing People and their Machines
Andy Lewis-Pye, Ehud Shapiro
Formal models for concurrent and distributed systems describe machines; the people who operate them are either ignored or treated as external environment. Yet, key distributed syst…
Securing People and their Machines Against Major Faults
Ohad Eitan, Idit Keidar, Ehud Shapiro
We consider grassroots platforms -- distributed systems of agents consisting of people identified by self-chosen public keys and their machines (smartphones) -- and wish to make th…
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…
Digital Speech Acts Retain Control of Copyright with People, Not Platforms
James Golike, Ehud Shapiro
Legal precedents protect computer code as copyrightable expression. They have enabled centralized digital platforms -- operating from corporate servers that hold all user data -- t…