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Engineering Social Order

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2000)

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Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are multiple and complementary approaches to Social Order and to its engineering: all of them must be exploited. In computer science one try to solve this problem by rigid formalisation and rules, constraining infrastructures, security devices, etc. I think that a more socially oriented approach is also needed. My point is that Social Control - and in particular decentralised and autonomous Social Control - will be one of the most effective approaches.

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The spreading identification between “social order” and cooperation is troublesome. I use here social order as “desirable”, good social order (from the point of view of an observer or designer, or from the point of view of the participants). However, more generally social order should be conceived as any form of systemic phenomenon or structure which is sufficiently stable, or better either self-organising and self-reproducing through the actions of the agents, or consciously orchestrated by (some of) them. Social order is neither necessarily

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  1. Division of “Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Interaction Modelling#x201D;, National Research Council - Institute of Psychology, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  2. Fachbereich 13 - Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Castelfranchi, C. (2000). Engineering Social Order. In: Omicini, A., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World. ESAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44539-0_1

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