Social – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu "Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems: When People Meet Machines to Build a Smarter Society" Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:56:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/favicon1.png Social – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu 32 32 SocInfo 2014: The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics http://www.smart-society-project.eu/socinfo14/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/socinfo14/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:14:41 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1826 Continue reading →]]> socinfo2014_logo_transparent_small

The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from November 10th to November 13th. SocInfo is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. The ultimate goal of Social Informatics is to create better understanding of socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set of social phenomena. To that end, they are inviting interdisciplinary papers, on applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, on applying social concepts in the design of information systems, on applying methods from the social sciences in the study of social computing and information systems, on applying computational algorithms to facilitate the study of social systems and human social dynamics, and on designing information and communication technologies that consider social context.

This year’s special purpose of the conference is to to bridge the gap between the social sciences and computer science. SocInfo aspires to a conference that is equally attractive to computer scientists and social scientists by putting emphasis on the methodology needed in the field of computational social science to reach long-term research objectives.

The event will also offer tutorials, workshops and keynote talks that will be tailored to address the collaboration between the two research cultures in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span offline, online and augmented reality worlds.

Visit their official site for information on the Calls for Papers and Workshops, research areas and more.

Important dates

Full paper submission: August 8, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: October 3, 2014
Submission of final version: October 10, 2014
Conference dates: November 10-13, 2014

]]> http://www.smart-society-project.eu/socinfo14/feed/ 0 Social Collective Intelligence: Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines to Build a Smarter Society http://www.smart-society-project.eu/combining-the-powers-of-humans-and-machines-to-build-a-smarter-society/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/combining-the-powers-of-humans-and-machines-to-build-a-smarter-society/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:44:30 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1489 Continue reading →]]> 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

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