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Inspired by the operation of human social organisation, this paper presents a new architecture—a pyramid-committee—for developing society-oriented intelligence, whose structure imitates the organisation of human society in its decision making. The system takes a pyramid-like hierarchical structure with links in the pyramid forming a semi-lattice, which relate not only to nodes in the same layer, but also to others in different layers. The output of the system is a result of the negotiation and balancing of different interests. For such a system to function, the main difficulties concern the complicated relationships between different factors or agents. Focussing on the airport environment audit, we discuss the development of a model framework and the role of neural networks.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s “Sustainable Cities Programme” for the support of this work.
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Yang, Y., Gillingwater, D. & Hinde, C. A conceptual framework for society-oriented decision support. AI & Soc 19, 279–291 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-004-0314-1
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