Comput. Soc. Science

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Comput. Soc. Science

Comput. Soc. Science

@COSS_eth

Professorship of Computational Social Science (COSS) at @ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Digital Democracy | Agent-Based Modeling | Participatory Approaches

Zurich, Switzerland Joined Ekim 2014
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Algorithms can bridge large-scale voting with face-to-face deliberation via real world. Key tools: Preference-based Clustering for Deliberation, human-in-the-loop & “Read The Room” visualisations for transparent group decision-making. arxiv.org/abs/2502.05017
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We can use digital twin simulations to test design choices in deliberative democracy by running “what-if” scenarios in virtual communities to explore better democratic institutions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Co-creating the future: how digital technologies, AI, and open-source innovation are transforming cities into participatory ecosystems for governance and sustainability. A vision for more democratic, resilient urban futures. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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Can collective intelligence + participatory budgeting empower everyone? This agent-based modeling shows that naive approaches can harm minorities unless we share knowledge. Open innovation boosts fairness and quality for all. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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“Human digital twins” might be the key to enabling Society 5.0, but not without serious risks. The new study explores how digital replicas of humans could reshape AI‑human interaction, identity, privacy, autonomy, and social power. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Trustworthiness of Voting Advice Applications in Europe” finds that these VAAs often fall short on transparency, stakeholder diversity, clear documentation, and disclosing assumptions, even though they can shape electoral behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities” argues that immersive UDTs may do more than just optimize: they risk deepening social divides by offering multiple, co‑existing urban “realities” tailored to different stakeholders. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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“LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making” finds that GPT‑4 / LLaMA‑2’s votes shift with voting methods, ordering, and persona settings and that they may show less diversity & biases vs. humans. arxiv.org/abs/2402.01766
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"Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting” shows that more expressive vote input and fair aggregation rules boost citizens’ perceptions of legitimacy. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…
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“On the Legitimacy of Voting Methods” probes how different voting rules shape citizens’ belief in government legitimacy. A timely reminder: the how we vote matters as much as the what. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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VoteLab is an open‑source, modular, adaptive platform for online collective decision experiments. You can build campaigns, deploy multiple voting methods, and collect insights in real time! arxiv.org/abs/2307.10903
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We need to re‑think digital twins of cities. Not as industrial machines, but as complex, living, evolving systems. Complexity science gives us the tools to capture how cities interact, adapt, and change over time. nature.com/articles/s4358…
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What if traffic lights could be voted on? This study combines voting with deep reinforcement learning to let agents choose traffic signal policies based on their goals. Turns out, “democratizing traffic” can outperform centralized control. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Many people spend most of their lives indoors, yet indoor air quality (IAQ) remains largely invisible. This co‑created citizen science project in Zurich puts communities at the center! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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