Presentation given by Prof. F. Giunchiglia, Smart Society Coordinator, at the Social-IST Workshop

1. SmartSociety
(was
“The
social
computer”)
(it
is
NOT
“The
smart
city”)
Fausto
Giunchiglia
Venice
26
03
2013
Social-­‐ist
workshop

2. Social
Computers
beyond
Social
Computing
Social
intensiveness
of
solution
Compute
and
data
intensiveness
of
solution
Conven&onal
computa&on
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

3. 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

4. * 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"?
4
The
“big
picture”

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. * 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

9. 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

10. * 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

11. 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

12. SmartSociety
THANK
YOU!
Fausto
Giunchiglia