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CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 01.12.2009
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1. Symposium on Collective Intelligence - COLLIN 2010 - 15.-16.04.2010 in Hagen (http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/collin2010/en/)

Collective behavior and collective intelligence can be found in various contexts. For example, new designs of T-Shirts, Lego models or sports shoes are developed by the crowd in the web, the audience of the TV-show “Who wants to be a millionaire” can provide the answer to a question the candidate cannot answer. These are only few examples of the potential of collective intelligence. Changing environmental factors, like new information technology and changed customer behavior, allow for many opportunities for the emergence of collective intelligence. Collective behavior and the achieved results as well as the closely connected individual learning processes offer a high potential for value creation in different areas, like business, research or society. However, the potential of collective behavior, collective intelligence and learning in the context of value creation is widely unexplored. To harness this potential, it is important to understand the basic concepts, features and mechanism of collective intelligence based on interdisciplinary research.

To provide a platform to share ideas and information between scientists and also between scientists and practitioners, a symposium on collective intelligence will take place from April 15 to April 16, 2010 at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen. Since the topic is highly interdisciplinary the symposium focuses on different research areas, like economics, informatics, media science, psychology, or sociology.

We are planning to publish the conference proceedings in the Springer Series „Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing“.

Tracks:

Track 1: Technology-enhanced learning in education and training - Knowledge construction and development of competencies in knowledge networks
Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Pedagogical and didactical opportunities for technology-enhanced learning and teaching
- Knowledge construction and interaction, communication and collaboration in learning tasks
- Collaboration in communities and/or open networks
- Instructional design models and principles
- New trends in educational technology (Web 2.0, Open Educational Resources, Mobile learning)
- Required competencies for learning, teaching and tutoring in technology-enhanced networks.
- Support systems for students and teachers
- Technical systems for the support of lifelong-learning, on demand learning and knowledge sharing
- Change management, implementation and dissemination of innovation in education and training
- Quality-management systems for technology enhanced learning
- Assessment methods

Track 2: Web-based collective intelligence in innovation processes
Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Methods and designs to use collective intelligence for value creation
- Categorization of mechanisms of web-based collective intelligence
- Business models for harnessing collective intelligence
- Challenges and success factors to harness web-based collective intelligence in innovation processes
- Methods to design environments for collective intelligent behavior
- Methods and models to analyze web-based collective phenomena
- Concepts to coordinate and control collective value creation
- Scientific theories to analyze web-based collective intelligence
- Scientific theories to analyze innovation processes and innovation networks
- Technological and organizational triggers to promote collective intelligence
- Case studies of using web-based collective intelligence for value creation

Track 3: Assessment factors, performance evaluation, and building blocks of Collective‑Intelligence (CI)‑Systems
Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Design requirements and development of CI-Systems
- Architecture and components of CI-Systems
- Case studies and applications of CI-Systems
- Decision support systems considering social network information
- Assessment factors for social networks
- Performance evaluation of social networks
- Mechanisms for establishing knowledge networks
- Methods for designing CI-Systems
- Mechanisms for extracting, storing, and accessing collective knowledge
- Formal structures and representations of collective knowledge
- IT-supported modeling of collective knowledge


Conference chairs
Theo J. Bastiaens, Ulrike Baumoel, Bernd J. Kraemer (FernUniversitaet in Hagen)

Program committee
Joern Altmann, Seoul National University, Korea
Aurélie Aurilla Arntzen Bechina, College University I Buskerud, Kongsberg, Norway
Homa Bahrami, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Claudia de Witt, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Sabine Fließ, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Peter A. Gloor, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, USA
Joerg Haake, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Axel Hochstein, Stanford University, USA
Norbert Hoffmann, Swiss Life AG, Zuerich, Switzerland
Reinhard Jung, Universitaet St. Gallen, Switzerland
Wilhelm Roedder, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Gunter Schlageter, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Chen-Yu Phillip Sheu, University of California at Irvine, USA
Klaus Tochtermann, Universitaet Graz, Austria
Brigitte Werners, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
Olaf Zawacki-Richter, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany

Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009
- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2010
- Camera Ready Subm. Deadline: January 30, 2010

Please refer for the full call of papers to our website: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/collin2010/en/

If you have any questions about the programme and/or the paper
submission process, please contact henrik.ickler@fernuni-hagen.de

Please accept our apologies should you receive multiple copies of
this call from different lists.