2021 Course
The seminar will cover a broad range of research questions, related to e-democracy.
These include:
Social Choice theory, voting rules, and decision-making processes
e-governance, including algorithms for participatory legislation and budgeting
Sybil prevention, detection, eradication and resilience
Distributed computing and distributed ledgers
Advances in governance solutions for cryptocurrencies
The seminar will educate students to read and present research articles and will prepare them for doing original research in the area of e-democracy.
Vardi et al., "Reasoning about Knowledge" https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/676/F01/fagin.pdf (Chapter 2)
Friebe et al., "Detasyr: Decentralized Ticket-based Authorization with Sybil Resistance" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8990773
Gao et al., "A Content-Based Method for Sybil Detection in Online Social Networks via Deep Learning" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9007376
Ford, "social and technical aspects of decentralized systems" https://bford.info/book/
Ford, "Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges" https://bford.info/book/
Ford, "A Liquid Perspective on Democratic Choice" https://bford.info/book/
Ford, "Threshold Logical Clocks for Asynchronous Distributed Coordination and Consensus" https://bford.info/book/
Ford, "Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society" https://bford.info/book/
Siddarth et al., "Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for Sybil-resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols" https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2008/2008.05300.pdf
Otte et al., "TrustChain: A Sybil-resistant scalable blockchain" https://www.blockchain-lab.org/#publications
Skowron et al., "Proportional Ranking" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.01434.pdf
Peters and Skowron, "Proportionality and the Limits of Welfarism" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.11747.pdf
Goel, "Liquidity in Credit Networks with Constrained Agents" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3366423.3380276
Procaccia, "WeBuildAI: Participatory Framework for Algorithmic Governance" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359283
Zhang and Grossi, "Power in Liquid Democracy" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.07070.pdf
Conitzer, "A Better Algorithm for Societal Tradeoffs" https://users.cs.duke.edu/~conitzer/betterAAAI19.pdf
Taiwan, "Pol.is" https://roamresearch.com/#/app/polis-methods/page/1GR4r4LX8
Lackner, "Perpetual Voting: Fairness in Long-Term Decision Making" https://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/proj/sudema/papers/perpetual.pdf
Borge et al., "Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies" https://bford.info/pub/dec/pop.pdf
Goel, "Continuous Credit Networks and Layer 2 Blockchains: Monotonicity and Sampling" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.06167.pdf
Pi, "Pi Network whitepaper" https://minepi.com/white-paper
Kiayias, "Blockchain mining games" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02420.pdf
Abraham, "Self-Sovereign Identity" https://www.egiz.gv.at/files/download/Self-Sovereign-Identity-Whitepaper.pdf