Many natural and man‐made systems exhibit self‐organization, where interactions among
components lead to system‐wide patterns of behavior. This paper first introduces current …

Collective intelligence is defined as the ability of a group to solve more problems than its
individual members. It is argued that the obstacles created by individual cognitive limits and …

We are witnessing a paradigm shift in Human Language Technology (HLT) that may well
have an impact on the field comparable to the statistical revolution: acquiring large-scale …

Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them
can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one …

More and more, software systems involve autonomous and distributed software components
that have to execute and interact in open and dynamic environments, such as in pervasive …

Inspired by the ideas of Swarm Intelligence and the “global brain”, a concept of “community
intelligence” is suggested in the present paper, reflecting that some “intelligent” features may …

One of the more novel approaches to collaboratively creating language resources in recent
years is to use online games to collect and validate data. The most significant challenges …

The success of psychotherapy depends on the nature of the therapeutic relationship
between a therapist and a client. We use dynamical systems theory to model the dynamics …

We present a survey of the first 21 years of web-based artificial life (WebAL) research and
applications, broadly construed to include the many different ways in which artificial life and …

Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise exploring the hypothesis that
global computer and communication networks will one day evolve into an autonomous …