5 June 2009
Rohit Parikh on Social Software
Posted by Rasmus Rendsvig under: Glossary; Social Software .
Social Software is a relatively new area of research which studies social institutions and procedures using techniques from Epistemic Logic, Game Theory, and Analysis of Algorithms. All social procedures and institutions, whether elections, conferences, or transportation systems, have a purpose which relies for its sucessful outcome on addressing issues of knowledge transfer, the motives (utility) of the agents involved, and on different parts of the overall algorithmic structure dovetailing with each other smoothly. Thus it is similar to Mechanism Design, a sub-area of Game Theory, but wider in scope. Several conferences, doctoral dissertations, and books have by now devoted themselves wholly or partly to Social Software.
Rohit Parikh
One Comment so far...
Pelle Guldborg Hansen Says:
7 July 2009 at 10:55 am.
It would be nice if a categorized or beginners’ list of publications could follow Parikh’s description, so that newcomers to the area could make a comfortable start. However, since I’m not as well-versed as I would like to be in Social Software, I hope someone will take upon themselves to produce such a list.
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