GCI4WebSci2022: General Collective Intelligence for Web Science Barcelona, Spain, June 26-27, 2022 |
Conference website | https://websci22.webscience.org/programme/workshops-and-tutorials/#Col-Int |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gci4websci2022 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 16, 2022 |
Submission deadline | April 16, 2022 |
GCI4WebSci2022 - 1st GCI4WebSci Workshop on General Collective Intelligence and Web Science - Call for Papers
Workshop website: https://websci22.webscience.org/programme/workshops-and-tutorials/#Col-Int
The 1st GCI4WebSci workshop on General Collective Intelligence and web science is co-located with the 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'22) https://websci22.webscience.org that will take place in Barcelona, Spain 26-27 June 2022.
Important Dates
- Abstract deadline (soft): April 9, 2022
- Submission deadline: April 16, 2022
- Notification: April 30, 2022
- Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2022
- Workshop date: June 26-27, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
Summary of Call for Papers
The GCI4WebSci workshop focuses on the relationship between web science and General Collective Intelligence or GCI, an emerging science predicted to significantly increase the general problem-solving ability of groups, where that general problem-solving ability is defined through Human-Centric Functional Modeling. As a model for the general problem-solving ability of groups, it is hypothesized that there are some problems groups simply aren't intelligent enough to reliably solve without GCI, including the problem of understanding they aren't intelligent enough. One set of such problems is involved in ensuring software platforms address user needs more than they exploit users. These are problems related to the need to decentralize identity management[1], the need to decentralize process management, and the need to decentralize data management. These problems are thus deeply related to web science and next generation technologies like web 3.0, given its goals to provide pervasive decentralization. This decentralization is in turn is also deeply related with General Collective Intelligence because it requires a system able to solve any problem of decentralization in general in a way that is collectively optimal for the entire group of users. A system that is able to address any collective optimization problem in general is one definition of a General Collective Intelligence.
This workshop explores both GCI and the patterns through which GCI might be leveraged to solve any problem of achieving radically increased collective user impact, including social impact [2][3] through the large-scale socio-technical systems that web science is concerned with, such as the World Wide Web.
GCI4WebSci 2022 will be particularly interested in work that explores questions relevant to the intersection of collective intelligence and any technologies relevant to web science:
- How might it be possible address the emerging technology problems that can’t reliably be solved today without General Collective Intelligence according to the “solvability of classes of group problems” hypothesis?
- How might it be possible to collectively increase capacity to address the problem of invisible and undetectable centralization that exists according to the “technology gravity well” hypothesis?
- How might it be possible to collectively increase capacity to address the existential social challenges defined by the “wicked problems” hypothesis?
- How might it be possible to orchestrate collectively intelligent cooperation that might significantly accelerate development of and progress towards emerging technologies like web 3.0?
Other active areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Classes of problems that cannot reliably be solved without GCI due to misalignment between outcomes that are optimal for the group and outcomes that are optimal for decision-makers choosing the solution;
- Decentralization required to align decision-making with optimal outcomes for the group;
- Functional state spaces as common semantic representations of information for the group which facilitate group problem-solving, and the use of ontologies as approximations of functional state spaces;
- Generalization, and semantic representation as requirements in significantly increasing the general problem-solving ability of groups;
- Predisposition to type 1 or type 2 reasoning as a source of cognitive bias in social web applications;
- Use of General Collective Intelligence to achieve the decentralization, generalization, and semantic representation required to significantly increase the general problem-solving ability of groups, or use of the Human-Centric Functional Modeling required to implement a GCI.
Submission, review, participation, and publication details
Originality
Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere.
Kinds of submissions
GCI4WebSci 2022 will be open for submissions: of short papers. Review versions of short papers may have up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions of short papers may have up to five (5) pages, plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references.
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E-submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gci4websci2022
Reviews
Papers will be peer reviewed for originality, relevance to themes, significance, soundness, presentation, and overall quality. Reviews will be single-blind.
Registration and presentation
At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop.
Publication
All *accepted and presented* papers will be submitted for publication in the proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'22), which will be published open access through ACM’s OpenTOC system.
Workshop Chairs
- Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
- Andy E. Williams (Nobeah Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya)
For more information, please contact the workshop organizers.