System wide variables

System-wide variables can be changed only by the vote of Governor Nodes (see #4 for details on node types and Use Cases).

Variable List

Lottery

Lottery algorithms (contract addresses) for:

• selecting workers for cognitive work
• selecting validators for quality assurance
• selecting arbiters for closed arbitration

Stakes and Reputation

• worker stake
• validator stake and reputation
• arbiter stake and reputation
• governor stake and reputation
• initial appeal additional stake
• public appeal additional stake

Penalties / Fines

• wrong data by client
• worker misreporting incorrect data
• delay and timeouts in results delivery (see Timeouts and Delays section)
• rejected work by worker
• rejected work by validator
• rejected work by arbiter
• faulty worker
• faulty validator
• faulty arbiters
• non-verdict for arbiters
• non-verdict for public quorum

Majorities and Quorums

• workers majority reporting incorrect data status required to decline cognitive contract in general
• arbiters in closed arbitration (3)
• initial applicants for public arbitration
• quorum in public arbitration
• verdict majority for public arbitration
• quorum for protocol changes
• majority for protocol changes

Timeouts and Delays

• workers delayed during data validation
• workers delayed for delivering results of cognition
• workers timed out during data validation
• workers timed out or delayed for delivering results of cognition
• validators initial response
• validators delay
• validators timeout
• validators disclose timeout
• ... same as four points above for arbiters
• ... same for public arbitration participants

Client Paybacks

• contract rejected due to data incorrectnes
• wrong data
• not enough workers
• no validation
• partial validation
• delays

Mining

• proof of research share
• proof of cognition share
• validators share

Validations and Arbitrations

• incorrect data batch validation repeat number
• threshold of new nodes for prolonging public arbitration applications
• delay duration for prolonging public arbitration applications