Engineering Social Order

  • Authors:
  • Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

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.