Social collective intelligence: combining the powers of humans and machines to build a smarter society

Daniele Miorandi (Editor), Vincenzo Maltese, Michael Rovatsos (Editor), Antinus Nijholt (Editor), James Stewart (Editor)

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    Abstract

    The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities with the communication, computing and storage capabilities of advanced ICT. Social Collective Intelligence opens a number of challenges for researchers in both computer science and social sciences; at the same time it provides an innovative approach to solve challenges in diverse application domains, ranging from health to education and organization of work. The book will provide a cohesive and holistic treatment of Social Collective Intelligence, including challenges emerging in various disciplines (computer science, sociology, ethics) and opportunities for innovating in various application areas. By going through the book the reader will gauge insight and knowledge into the challenges and opportunities provided by this new, exciting, field of investigation. Benefits for scientists will be in terms of accessing a comprehensive treatment of the open research challenges in a multidisciplinary perspective. Benefits for practitioners and applied researchers will be in terms of access to novel approaches to tackle relevant problems in their field. Benefits for policy-makers and public bodies representatives will be in terms of understanding how technological advances can support them in supporting the progress of society and economy.
    Original languageUndefined
    Place of PublicationHeidelberg
    PublisherSpringer
    Number of pages276
    ISBN (Print)978-3-319-08680-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 17 Sept 2014

    Publication series

    NameSpringer Series on Computational Social Sciences
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Volume5

    Keywords

    • Human Computer Interfaces
    • Programming Social Collectives
    • METIS-309585
    • HMI-IE: Information Engineering
    • Social Computing
    • IR-93097
    • EWI-25085
    • Hybrid Social Computational Systems
    • Social Collective Intelligence Systems
    • Socio-Technical Systems
    • Social Networks
    • Collective Adaptive Systems
    • Collective Intelligence
    • Technology-society Co-design

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