cs.CY · 2026-06-16 · No. 25

Computers and Society, 2026-06-16.

2 new papers in cs.CY. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    Optimising Temporary Accommodation Placement Across London with AI-Powered SaaS in E-Governance Systems

    Hankun He, Jordan Richards, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Kumar Aniket, Ramya Pachatcharam, Binta Ade-olusile, Nathan...

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.SI

    Temporary accommodation has become a major fiscal and administrative pressure for English local authorities, particularly in London, where demand and costs have risen sharply. This paper documents the creation and use of DOMUS, a cloud-based, AI-enabled decision-support system built from scratch at the University of East London and customised for the needs of London Borough of Newham to support statutory Temporary accommodation placement....

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.16652 · PDF

  2. 02

    AI systems out-persuade expert humans

    Kobi Hackenburg, Caroline Wagner, Luke Hewitt, Ben M. Tappin, Ed Saunders, Hannah Rose Kirk, Helen Margetts,...

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has remained unclear. Here, in a series of four preregistered experiments (n = 18,978 conversations from 6,923 people), we pitted AI systems against a range of human persuaders, including laypeople, winners of a separately preregistered four-round...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475 · PDF

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