Eric, Mohammed, et al.: Alex Poddiakov, in Moscow, has done work that seems to me like it *might* be related to this question; for instance, on what he calls "Trojan horse learning". I refer you to his website, where various manuscripts (some in Russian, some in Russglish) are available and others are at least pointed to. <http://epee.hse.ru/Poddiakov>
Lee Rudolph > I can't see that this posted, sorry if it is a duplicate -------- > > Mohammed, > Being totally unqualified to help you with this problem... it > seems interesting to me because most models I know of this sort (social > systems > models) are about information acquisition and deployment. That is, the modeled > critters try to find out stuff, and then they do actions dependent upon what > they find. If we are modeling active obfuscation, then we would be doing the > opposite - we would be modeling an information-hiding game. Of course, there > is > lots of game theory work on information hiding in two critter encounters (I'm > thinking evolutionary-game-theory-looking-at-deception). I haven't seen > anything, though, looking at distributed information hiding. > > The idea > that you could create a system full of autonomous agents in which information > ends up hidden, but no particular individuals have done the hiding, is kind of > cool. Seems like the type of thing encryption guys could get into (or already > are into, or have already moved past). > > Eric > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 > 10:05 PM, Mohammed El-Beltagy <moham...@computer.org> > wrote: > > > > > I have a question I would like to pose to the group in that regard: > > > >Can we model/simulate how in a democracy that is inherently open (as > >stated in the constitution: for the people, by the people etc..) there > >emerges "decision masking structures" emerge that actively obfuscate > >the participatory nature of the democratic decision making for their > >ends? > > > > > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
