Based on field experiments in Taiwan and Switzerland, this paper presents hybrid algorithmic designs that integrate deliberation and voting for digital democracy.
@inproceedings{yang2025bridging,title={Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee},author={Yang, Joshua C and Bachmann, Fynn},booktitle={ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)},year={2025},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05017},}
arXiv
Upgrading Democracies with Fairer Voting Methods
Evangelos
Pournaras, Srijoni
Majumdar, Thomas
Wellings, Joshua C
Yang, Fatemeh B
Heravan, Regula Hänggli
Fricker, and Dirk
Helbing
A technical and conceptual analysis of how fairer voting methods, such as the Method of Equal Shares, can improve democratic outcomes.
@article{pournaras2025upgrading,title={Upgrading Democracies with Fairer Voting Methods},author={Pournaras, Evangelos and Majumdar, Srijoni and Wellings, Thomas and Yang, Joshua C and Heravan, Fatemeh B and Fricker, Regula H{\"a}nggli and Helbing, Dirk},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14349},year={2025},}
arXiv
Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-Designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
A detailed case study of the Winterthur 2025 Kultur Komitee participatory budgeting process, introducing the Komitee Equal Shares (KES) algorithm for co-designed group decision making.
@misc{yang2025komitee,title={Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-Designed Virtual Budget Algorithm},author={Yang, Joshua C and Scheurer, Noemi},journal={Working Paper},url={http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02040},year={2025},}
2024
AIES
LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making
Joshua C
Yang, Marcin
Korecki, Damian
Dailisan, Carina I
Hausladen, and Dirk
Helbing
In 7th AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society , 2024
This paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can participate in and support human collective decision making. Through experiments comparing human and LLM voting behaviors, the work investigates alignment, bias, and interpretability in AI-assisted democratic processes.
@inproceedings{yang2024llm,title={LLM Voting: Human Choices and AI Collective Decision Making},author={Yang, Joshua C and Korecki, Marcin and Dailisan, Damian and Hausladen, Carina I and Helbing, Dirk},booktitle={7th AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society},year={2024},}
TRC
Democratizing Traffic Control in Smart Cities
Marcin
Korecki, Damian
Dailisan, Joshua C
Yang, and Dirk
Helbing
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2024
A decentralized approach to traffic optimization that embeds democratic decision mechanisms into smart city infrastructures.
@article{korecki2024democratizing,title={Democratizing Traffic Control in Smart Cities},author={Korecki, Marcin and Dailisan, Damian and Yang, Joshua C and Helbing, Dirk},journal={Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies},volume={160},pages={104511},year={2024},publisher={Pergamon},}
ACM
Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting
Joshua C
Yang, Carina I
Hausladen, Dominik
Peters, Evangelos
Pournaras, Regula
Hänggli Fricker, and Dirk
Helbing
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has evolved into a key democratic instrument for resource allocation in cities. This study identifies how digital design choices influence citizens’ perceptions of fairness and legitimacy in PB voting systems.
@article{yang2024designing,title={Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting},author={Yang, Joshua C and Hausladen, Carina I and Peters, Dominik and Pournaras, Evangelos and H{\"a}nggli Fricker, Regula and Helbing, Dirk},journal={Digital Government: Research and Practice},volume={5},number={3},pages={1--30},year={2024},publisher={ACM},url={https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3665332},}
RoyalSoc
Exploring Legitimacy in a Municipal Budget Decision in Switzerland: Empirical Insights into Citizens’ Perceptions
Regula
Hänggli Fricker, Thomas
Wellings, Florin
Zai, Joshua C
Yang, Srijoni
Majumdar, Laurent
Bernhard, Leopold
Weil, Carina I
Hausladen, and Evangelos
Pournaras
An empirical study investigating how citizens in Switzerland evaluate legitimacy, fairness, and transparency in participatory budget decisions.
@article{hanggli2024exploring,title={Exploring Legitimacy in a Municipal Budget Decision in Switzerland: Empirical Insights into Citizens’ Perceptions},author={H{\"a}nggli Fricker, Regula and Wellings, Thomas and Zai, Florin and Yang, Joshua C and Majumdar, Srijoni and Bernhard, Laurent and Weil, Leopold and Hausladen, Carina I and Pournaras, Evangelos},journal={Philosophical Transactions A},volume={382},number={2285},pages={20240098},year={2024},publisher={The Royal Society},}
2023
Elsevier
Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society
Dirk
Helbing, Sachit
Mahajan, Regula Hänggli
Fricker, Andrea
Musso, Carina I
Hausladen, Cesare
Carissimo, Dino
Carpentras, Elisabeth
Stockinger, Javier Argota
Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Joshua C
Yang, and
others
An interdisciplinary perspective on digital participation, algorithmic fairness, and societal upgrades through technology-enabled democratic systems.
@article{helbing2023democracy,title={Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society},author={Helbing, Dirk and Mahajan, Sachit and Fricker, Regula H{\"a}nggli and Musso, Andrea and Hausladen, Carina I and Carissimo, Cesare and Carpentras, Dino and Stockinger, Elisabeth and Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Javier Argota and Yang, Joshua C and others},journal={Journal of Computational Science},volume={71},pages={102061},year={2023},publisher={Elsevier},}
IEEE
A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
Mark C
Ballandies, Hongyang
Wang, Andrew Chung Chee
Law, Joshua C
Yang, Christophe
Gösken, and Michael
Andrew
In 2023 IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) , 2023
This paper provides a conceptual taxonomy for decentralized infrastructure systems that leverage blockchain technologies to manage shared physical resources.
@inproceedings{ballandies2023taxonomy,title={A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)},author={Ballandies, Mark C and Wang, Hongyang and Law, Andrew Chung Chee and Yang, Joshua C and G{\"o}sken, Christophe and Andrew, Michael},booktitle={2023 IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)},pages={1--6},year={2023},organization={IEEE},}
2020
UoM
Respeaking for Word-Spotting as a Collaborative Transcription Method for Oral Languages
This thesis explores the use of respeaking and speech recognition to assist in documenting and transcribing oral and endangered languages.
@phdthesis{yang2020respeaking,title={Respeaking for Word-Spotting as a Collaborative Transcription Method for Oral Languages},author={Yang, Joshua C},year={2020},school={University of Melbourne},}
