Social Deliberation vs Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary Organisations
<|reference_start|>Social Deliberation vs Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary Organisations: Self-organising multi-agent systems regulate their components' behaviour voluntarily, according to a set of socially-constructed, mutually-agreed, and mutable social arrangements. In some systems, these arrangements may be applied with a frequency, at a scale and within implicit cost constraints such that performance becomes a pressing issue. This paper introduces the \textit{Megabike Scenario}, which consists of a negotiated agreement on a relatively 'large' set of conventional rules, 'frequent' 'democratic' decision-making according to those rules, and a resource-bounded imperative to reach 'correct' decisions. A formalism is defined for effective rule representation and processing in the scenario, and is evaluated against five interleaved socio-functional requirements. System performance is also evaluated empirically through simulation. We conclude that to self-organise their social arrangements, agents need some awareness of their own limitations and the value of compromise.<|reference_end|>
@article{scott2024social,
    title={Social Deliberation vs. Social Contracts in Self-Governing Voluntary
  Organisations},
    author={Matthew Scott and Asimina Mertzani and Ciske Smit and Stefan Sarkadi
  and Jeremy Pitt},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16329},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.16329},
    primaryClass={cs.MA}
}