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Collective Intelligence 2012, Extended Submission Deadline: Nov-18

  • 1.  Collective Intelligence 2012, Extended Submission Deadline: Nov-18

    Posted 11-05-2011 21:53
    Due to many requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline
    to November 18, 2011.


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    CALL FOR PAPERS
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    Collective Intelligence 2012
    MIT, Cambridge, MA
    April 18-20, 2012
    www.ci2012.org
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    PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 18, 2011
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    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 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 18 2011 (extended from original
    deadline of November 4, 2011)
    Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2012
    Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2012
    Conference dates: April 18 – 20, 2012

    INVITED SPEAKERS
    Lada Adamic (Michigan)
    Yochai Benkler (Harvard)
    Colin Camerer (Caltech)
    Chris Chabris (Union)
    Yiling Chen (Harvard)
    Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo!)
    Iain Couzin (Princeton)
    Deborah Gordon (Stanford)
    Ed Hutchins (UCSD)
    Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
    Robert Kraut (CMU)
    Karim Lakhani (Harvard)
    Winter Mason (Stevens)
    Rob Miller (MIT)
    Scott Page (Michigan)
    Matthew Salganik (Princeton)
    Ben Shneiderman (Maryland)
    Anita Woolley (CMU)
    Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard)

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

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

    LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS
    Cynthia Rudin (MIT)
    Seyda Ertekin (MIT)

    PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
    Michael Bernstein (MIT)

    PUBLICITY CHAIR
    Panagiotis Ipeirotis (NYU)

    SPONSOR
    National Science Foundation