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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…
Grassroots Bonds as a Foundation for Market Liquidity
Ehud Shapiro
Global cryptocurrencies are unbacked and have high transaction cost incurred by global consensus. In contrast, grassroots cryptocurrencies are backed by the goods and services of t…
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…
Characterising Global Platforms: Centralised, Decentralised, Federated, and Grassroots
Ehud Shapiro
Global digital platforms are software systems designed to serve entire populations, with some already serving billions of people. We propose atomic transactions-based multiagent tr…
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…