LS2C – A Platform to Design, Implement and Execute Social Computations

Abstract

Social computers have been characterised as goal oriented complex systems comprised of humans as well as computational devices. Such systems can be found in natura in a variety of scenarios, as well as designed to tackle specific issues of social and economic relevance. In the present article we introduce the Lightweight Situated Social Calculus (LS 2 C) as a language to design executable specifications of interaction protocols for social computations. Additionally, we describe a platform to process these specifications, giving them a computational realisation. We argue that LS 2 C can be used to design, implement and execute social computations.