Citizens' assemblies are groups of randomly selected constituents who are tasked with
providing recommendations on policy questions. Assembly members form their …

Background Benefiting from the massive process data stored in the plant distributed control
system, the identification of chemical processes using deep learning methods has been …

Most sports associations regularly face the problem of determining and scheduling games
for dozens if not hundreds of non-professional (youth) teams. For practical reasons and …

With urban development and industrial restructuring, many old industrial buildings are left
unused, making the renewal of such buildings a crucial aspect of urban construction. To …

Driven by shortcomings of current democratic systems, practitioners and political scientists
are exploring democratic innovations, ie, institutions for decision-making that more directly …

With the rapid development of network technology, all kinds of new media continue to
emerge, and the “full‐scale” zero‐day difference of new media communication breaks …

The goal of this thesis is to develop theoretical and empirical frameworks to promote fair and
representative collective decision-making in Citizens' Assemblies (CAs). In a CA, facilitators …