This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety.

Abstract: We study simulation models of spreading on peer-to-peer communication networks where any peer (or agent) can be the source of information, be it sensory recognition or contextual knowledge. In such a situation the value or quality of information is of key relevance. Questions of trust, provenance and the problem of the interaction pattern arise and are approached by three different algorithms in our paper: (i) “quantitative democracy”, where knowledge is averaged on a meeting (ii) “experience takes all”, where the more experienced (the teacher) overwrites all prior knowledge of the less experienced (the “student”), and (iii) “transitive experience” where not only information but also experience is handed over. We compare these different regimes and identify their tradeoffs.

Keywords: Trust, provenance, self-organization, emergence, collaborative information processing.

Citation: George Kampis and Paul Lukowicz. Collaborative Activity Recognition.

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Collective Intelligence 2014 is an interdisciplinary conference seeking to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

The conference will take place at MIT and consist of:

• Invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence such as engineering, psychology, management, political science, information science, and sociology
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• Extended abstract submission deadline:  January 15, 2014
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• Conference dates:  June 10-12, 2014

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