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Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are multiple and complementary approaches to Social Order and to its engineering: all of them must be exploited. In computer science one try to solve this problem by rigid formalisation and rules, constraining infrastructures, security devices, etc. I think that a more socially oriented approach is also needed. My point is that Social Control - and in particular decentralised and autonomous Social Control - will be one of the most effective approaches.
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The spreading identification between “social order” and cooperation is troublesome. I use here social order as “desirable”, good social order (from the point of view of an observer or designer, or from the point of view of the participants). However, more generally social order should be conceived as any form of systemic phenomenon or structure which is sufficiently stable, or better either self-organising and self-reproducing through the actions of the agents, or consciously orchestrated by (some of) them. Social order is neither necessarily
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Castelfranchi, C. (2000). Engineering Social Order. In: Omicini, A., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World. ESAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44539-0_1
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