Smart Society: Vision and Challenges
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SmartSociety (was “The social computer”) (it is NOT “The smart city”)
Fausto Giunchiglia Venice 26 03 2013 Social-‐ist workshop
Social Computers beyond Social Computing
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Social decentralised systems
Facebook DARPA Network Challenge
Social computa&on decentralised through society
Problems in this space have: • Small, direct impact locally magnified when replicated across global society; or • Huge, potential impact globally but need a social infrastructure to harness the local ingenuity and data of humans/sensors.
E-‐Bay
Social control of healthcare and disease
My preferite application domain
• 30 million people suffer from rare diseases in Europe.
• There are 8000 rare diseases.
• Only 1900 of these are diagnosable.
• No Member State Health Service offers diagnostic services in all 1900 conditions
• Conventional“long tail” problem
* Computers are great at storing, processing and communicating data * People are great at interpreting context, interpersonal relationships and social norms * Can we combine the best of both worlds to build a "smart society"?
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The “big picture”
Problem: there are no systematic ways to guarantee effective communication and coordinated action given the scale and diversity in terms of people involved (different opinions, cultures and languages), systems, data produced and goals
ICT and society today
* Exponential increase in number of devices * The rise of social networking platforms * Physical and virtual dimensions of life are
more and more intertwined * Society is progressively moving towards a
socio-‐technical ecosystem with a tight interaction people-‐machines
The structure of smart societies
Ubiquitous sensing technologies
(big data produced)
From local to social interpretation of data (real world global semantics)
From low-‐level to high-‐level interpretation of data (real world local semantics)
Actions are taken locally and collectively,
across many different communities and individuals
Actions are taken locally by many different individuals
A new generation of systems able to tackle societal challenges * Hybrid: composed of humans and machines able to seamlessly
interoperate and cooperate * Diversity-‐aware: pragmatic semantics among and across people and
machines, as required in the future socio-‐technical systems where: * People provide individual/local as well as global/social, implicit or explicit,
semantics (the mapping to the real world) and act towards achieving local/global goals
* Machines “compose” and adapt to people by learning from them, supporting them in achieving the goals
Smart society systems
* Closing the semantic gap between humans and machines, where humans are also means and not only ends
* Compositionality of humans and machines * ICT-‐society co-‐design: in full respect of human values
Key issues
Diversity: a theory of diversity which covers multiple dimensions * Vertical: from machines to people to society * Horizontal: among machines, people and society * Multi-‐faceted, in layers: * goals, * actions, including human and machine sensing * programs and processes, * data and knowledge
Closing the semantic gap
* Compositionality: a theory of compositionality, building upon the theory of diversity, and mechanisms, so that there can be cooperation on the large scale among machines and humans, by leveraging on their respective strengths and compensating their limitations * … in layers * human and machine goals, * Actions, including human and machine sensing * processes/programs, * knowledge/data
Compositionality
ICT and society co-‐design
With the contribution of different disciplines which currently interact weakly, if at all
Development of a radically innovative Social Computer Science, drawing on ICT, social sciences and the humanities
Social Sciences and Humanities
ICT
Multi-disciplinary Research Community on the Social Computer
MODELING & SIMULATIONS
DATA AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
SEMANTICS
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
LAW ECONOMICS
PSHYCHOLOGY ETHICS
SmartSociety THANK YOU!
Fausto Giunchiglia