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This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a
comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of
emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled
with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by
physicists, mathematicians, computer and social scientists to
analyse, interpret and visualize complex data sets. There is
overwhelming evidence that the current organisation of our
economies and societies is seriously damaging biological ecosystems
and human living conditions in the short term, with potentially
catastrophic effects in the long term. The need to re-organise the
daily activities with the greatest impact - energy consumption,
transport, housing - towards a more efficient and sustainable
development model has recently been raised in the public debate on
several global, environmental issues. Above all, this requires the
mismatch between global, societal and individual needs to be
addressed. Recent advances in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) can trigger important transitions at the
individual and collective level to achieve this aim. Based on the
findings of the collaborative research network EveryAware the
following developments among the emerging ICT technologies are
discussed in depth in this volume: * Participatory sensing - where
ICT development is pushed to the level where it can support
informed action at the hyperlocal scale, providing capabilities for
environmental monitoring, data aggregation and mining, as well as
information presentation and sharing. * Web gaming, social
computing and internet-mediated collaboration - where the Web will
continue to acquire the status of an infrastructure for social
computing, allowing users' cognitive abilities to be coordinated in
online communities, and steering the collective action towards
predefined goals. * Collective awareness and decision-making -
where the access to both personal and community data, collected by
users, processed with suitable analysis tools, and re-presented in
an appropriate format by usable communication interfaces leads to a
bottom-up development of collective social strategies.
This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a
comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of
emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled
with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by
physicists, mathematicians, computer and social scientists to
analyse, interpret and visualize complex data sets. There is
overwhelming evidence that the current organisation of our
economies and societies is seriously damaging biological ecosystems
and human living conditions in the short term, with potentially
catastrophic effects in the long term. The need to re-organise the
daily activities with the greatest impact - energy consumption,
transport, housing - towards a more efficient and sustainable
development model has recently been raised in the public debate on
several global, environmental issues. Above all, this requires the
mismatch between global, societal and individual needs to be
addressed. Recent advances in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) can trigger important transitions at the
individual and collective level to achieve this aim. Based on the
findings of the collaborative research network EveryAware the
following developments among the emerging ICT technologies are
discussed in depth in this volume: * Participatory sensing - where
ICT development is pushed to the level where it can support
informed action at the hyperlocal scale, providing capabilities for
environmental monitoring, data aggregation and mining, as well as
information presentation and sharing. * Web gaming, social
computing and internet-mediated collaboration - where the Web will
continue to acquire the status of an infrastructure for social
computing, allowing users' cognitive abilities to be coordinated in
online communities, and steering the collective action towards
predefined goals. * Collective awareness and decision-making -
where the access to both personal and community data, collected by
users, processed with suitable analysis tools, and re-presented in
an appropriate format by usable communication interfaces leads to a
bottom-up development of collective social strategies.
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Self-Organizing Systems - 7th IFIP TC6 International Workshop, IWSOS 2013, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 9-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014)
Wilfried Elmenreich, Falko Dressler, Vittorio Loreto
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 7th IFIP TC 6 International Workshop on
Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2013, held in Palma de Mallorca,
Spain, in May 2013. The 11 revised full papers and 9 short papers
presented were carefully selected from 35 paper submissions. The
papers are organized in following topics: design and analysis of
self-organizing and self-managing systems, inspiring models of
self-organization in nature and society, structure, characteristics
and dynamics of self-organizing networks, self-organization in
techno-social systems, self-organized social computation and
self-organized communication systems.
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