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Introduction and Challenges of Environment Architectures for Collective Intelligence Systems

Authors : Juergen Musil, Angelika Musil, Stefan Biffl

Published in: Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Collective Intelligence Systems (CIS), such as wikis, social networks, and content-sharing platforms, are an integral part of today’s collective knowledge creation and sharing processes. CIS are complex adaptive systems, which realize environment-mediated coordination, in particular with stigmergic mechanisms. The behavior of CIS is emergent, as high-level, system-wide behavior is influenced by low-level rules. These rules are encapsulated by the CIS infrastructure that comprises in its center an actor-created artifact network that stores the shared content. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to the CIS domain, CIS architectural principles and processes. Further, we reflect on the role of CIS as multi-agent system (MAS) environments and conclude with an outlook on research challenges for CIS architectures.

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Metadata
Title
Introduction and Challenges of Environment Architectures for Collective Intelligence Systems
Authors
Juergen Musil
Angelika Musil
Stefan Biffl
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-23849-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-23850-0

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_6

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