One of today's most significant societal challenges is building AI systems whose behaviour,
or the behaviour it enables within communities of interacting agents (human and artificial) …

There is an increasing recognition of the need to engineer AI that respects and embodies
human values. The value alignment problem, which identifies that need, has led to a …

Abstract Online Social Systems such as community forums, social media, e-commerce and
gaming are having an increasingly significant impact on our lives. They affect the way we …

In this paper, we propose an architecture supporting online open communities, where by
open communities, we mean communities where previously unknown people can join …

The notion of electronic institution draws inspiration from traditional institutions. Both can be
seen as “coordination artefacts that serve as an interface between the internal decision …

Commitments are a useful abstraction to specify the social semantics of multi-agent
communication languages. To use them in open and heterogeneous systems, it is …

While normative systems have excelled at addressing issues such as coordination and
cooperation, they have left a number of open challenges. The first is how to reconcile …

We propose an application that allows users to request other users for help with every-day
tasks. Users can pay each other for these tasks by issuing contracts in which the requester …

When people need help with their day-to-day activities, they turn to family, friends or
neighbours. But despite an increasingly networked world, technology falls short in finding …

We put forward an architecture for the next generation of AI-mediated intra-organizational
communication (IOC), towards enhanced team productivity and satisfaction. Our proposal …