* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Thu 31 May 2018 12:00 - 12:20 at R2 - Meeting other sciences Chair(s): Amel Bennaceur

Citizens envision the transition from the representative democracy to the online direct democracy. Inspired by the ancient Athenians’ direct democracy, we propose an initial version of the framework Digital Ecclesia. We model the Digital Ecclesia as a social network that offers dynamic and large-scale reachability of citizens. Citizens are dynamically notified to participate and vote on discussion topics of new working groups. To address scalability and privacy challenges, the architecture of the Digital Ecclesia is distributed, i.e. each node runs a local program with its own storage that executes the voting procedure in parallel with other nodes. Nodes communicate to each other via exchanging encrypted messages in a scalable manner. We model the voting procedure as a non-cooperative game and we specify an algorithm for employing the voting game in a distributed fashion. Finally, we conduct the preliminary evaluation of the algorithm on a corpus of real-world votes.

Thu 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Meeting other sciencesSEIS - Software Engineering in Society at R2
Chair(s): Amel Bennaceur The Open University
11:00
20m
Talk
[Full paper] SE in ES: Opportunities for Software Engineering and Cloud Computing in Environmental Science
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society
11:20
20m
Talk
[Full paper] Towards a Unified Conceptual Model for Surveillance Theories
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society
Balbir Barn Middlesex University, UK, Ravinder Barn
Pre-print File Attached
11:40
20m
Talk
[Full paper] Competence-Confidence Gap: A Threat to Female Developers' Contribution on GitHub
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society
Zhendong Wang , Yi Wang Rochester Institute of Technology, David Redmiles
DOI Pre-print
12:00
20m
Talk
[Short paper] Digital Ecclesia: Towards an Online Direct-Democracy Framework
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society
Dionysis Athanasopoulos Victoria University of Wellington
DOI Pre-print
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
SEIS - Software Engineering in Society