Software Architecture: Research Roadmaps from the Community by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031368479
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

Dealing with Fuzziness

One concern about values, goals, and digital systems concerns the divide between the fuzzy nature of the former and the precise nature of computation, algorithms, and program code that make up digital systems. Regulation and law are examples of natural language formulation of rules, obligations, permissions, sanctions, etc. and have long been known to consist of parts with a clear meaning as well as parts which are subject to considerable interpretation [31]. Similarly, we can expect values and goals to have both types of parts. In contrast, digital systems are driven by programs, which are typically much more precise than natural language.

This difference in precision, and specifically the fuzziness of goals and values, needs to be handled well in value-based ecosystems. Not only will the ecosystem need mechanisms to make decisions based on fuzzy values and goals, but it also requires mechanisms to handle a potentially diverse understanding of values and goals within the group of human users. A possible mechanism to this end could be voting: human members of the ecosystem vote on specific issues, in order to inform the digital systems about concrete decisions and interpretations. A challenge hereby concerns the selection of a few issues to vote on—there should be few, as to not overburden the users, but the information which the digital systems gain from them should be maximized.

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