-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Papers: Collective Intelligence 2012 Datum: Thu, 26 May 2011 16:33:46 -0400 Von: Thomas W. Malone malone@MIT.EDU An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Thomas Malone malone@MIT.EDU

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******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** Collective Intelligence 2012 MIT, Cambridge, MA April 18-20, 2012 www.ci2012.org http://www.ci2012.org/ ********************************************************

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • human computation • social computing • crowdsourcing • wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets) • group memory and problem-solving • deliberative democracy • animal collective behavior • organizational design • public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform) • ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops") • computational models of group search and optimization • emergence and evolution of intelligence • new technologies for making groups smarter

See www.ci2012.org http://www.ci2012.org/ for more details about topics and submission format.

FORMAT The conference will consist of · invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence · oral paper presentations · poster sessions.

SUBMISSION Papers of three types are invited: · Reports of original research results · Reviews of previous research in one or more fields relevant to collective intelligence · Position papers about research agendas for the field of collective intelligence

Some of the papers submitted will be invited for oral presentation, others for presentation as posters.

IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011 Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2012 Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2012 Conference dates: April 18 – 20, 2012

CHAIRS Thomas Malone (MIT) Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Melllon University)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research) Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania) Andrew Lo (MIT) Paul Resnick (University of Michigan) Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)

SPONSOR National Science Foundation