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This special session during ICCS deals with the problem of Collective Intelligence, which is most often understood as an AI sub-field dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions, which is an important part of modern and future computing.

The session is organized by the IEEE Computational Collective Intelligence technical committee, but welcomes all interested parties. The goal is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

Topics of interest

• Group decision making
• Consensus computing
• Collective action coordination
• Inconsistent knowledge processing
• Ontology mapping and merging
• Collaborative ontology
• Ontology development in social networks
• Semantic social networks
• Semantic and knowledge grids
• Semantic annotation of web data resources
• Group web services (service description, discovery, composition)
• Automatic metadata generation
• Semantic web inference schemes
• Reasoning in the semantic web
• Knowledge portals
• Knowledge discovery
• Information retrieval
• Advanced analysis for social networks dynamics
• Social networks and semantic communication
• Cooperative distributed problem solving
• Multiagent planning
• Negotiation protocols
• Multiagent learning