Books – Smart Society Project

Social Collective Intelligence: Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines to Build a Smarter Society

P. Andreadis — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:44:30 +0000

About: 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.

Citation: Miorandi, D., Maltese, V., Rovatsos, M., Nijholt, A., Stewart, J., Social Collective Intelligence: Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines to Build a Smarter Society, Springer, 2014.

Url: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319086804

Human Computer Confluence: The Next Generation Humans and Computers Research Agenda

P. Andreadis — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:49:26 +0000

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HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program (funded under FP7-ICT) studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. The horizontal character of HCC makes it a fascinating and fertile interdisciplinary field, but it can also compromise its growth, with researchers scattered across disciplines and groups worldwide. A coordination activity promoting discipline connect, identity building and integration while defining future research, education and policy directions is needed at the regional, national, European and international level.

The HCC research agenda book “Human Computer Confluence – The Next Generation Humans and Computers Research Agenda” reflects the state of the research agenda as of October 2013. It is published under the acronym “Th. Sc. Community” (“The Scientific Community”), standing for a representative blend of the top leading scientists worldwide in this field. It presents a collection of 26 research challenge position statements solicited via the Solicitation Portal, and is publicly available to the whole scientific community for commenting, assessment and consensus finding.

SmartSociety members that have contributed to this publication include Fausto Giunchiglia, Stuart Anderson, Mark Hartswood, Schahram Dustdar, Ognjen Šćekić and Hong-Linh Truong.

Version

19.0, last change 16. 01. 2014

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Lead editor / coordinator

Univ. Prof. Dr. Alois Ferscha
Institute for Pervasive Computing
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
A-4040 Linz
Email: ferscha@pervasive.jku.at

Assistant editor

Michael Matscheko

Copyright

Copyright of each article stays with the stated authors. Reproduction, for personal use or for further non-commercial or commercial dissemination, of any part of this document is subject to authorisation from the respective copyright holder.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported under the FP7 ICT FET (Future Enabling Technologies) programme of the European Commission under grant agreement No 258063 (HC2).

ISBN 978-3-200-03344-3

Provenance: An Introduction to PROV

P. Andreadis — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:23:38 +0000

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/356916/

Citation: Moreau, Luc and Groth, Paul (2013) Provenance: An Introduction to PROV, Morgan and Claypool, 129pp.

A free sample can be found here: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00528ED1V01Y201308WBE007

FoCAS Book: Adaptive Collective Systems – Herding Black Sheep

P. Andreadis — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:04:02 +0000

This book is about understanding, designing, controlling, and governing adaptive collective systems. It is intended for readers from master’s students to Ph.D. students, from engineers to decision makers, and anyone else who is interested in understanding how technologies are changing the way we think and live.

The authors are academics working in various areas of a new rising field: adaptive collective systems.

Stuart Anderson (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | SmartSociety)
Nicolas Bredeche (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
A.E. Eiben (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands | FoCAS CA)
George Kampis (DFKI, Germany | Allow Ensembles and SmartSociety)
Maarten van Steen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Book Sprint collaborative writing session facilitator: Adam Hyde
Editor: Sandra Sarala
Designer: Henrik van Leeuwen

View the FoCAS Book Sprint process with full details and photos here.

Download: http://bit.ly/1TZSwdE