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Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI) WORKSHOP



WORKSHOP to be held at the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI-10) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10)
August 31, 2010, Toronto, Canada


The global nature of service-oriented computing leads to many opportunities and challenges in all domains, and creates a networked structure for constructing collective intelligence. This Workshop deals with the application of service-oriented computing in constructing collective intelligence (emerging from the collaboration and competition of many individuals, e.g., artificial and/ or natural). The objective of this Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI) is to provide an outlet to report on research aspects and applications of service-oriented computing for collective intelligence. This Workshop seeks papers discussing state-of-the-art research (e.g., models, techniques, theories), on-going R&D projects, or recent advances (e.g., ICT infrastructures) for collective intelligence based on service-oriented computing. It encourages the submission of unpublished papers describing new concepts, theories, strategies, systems, ICT infrastructures, or case studies discussing the applicability of these approaches to real-world problems, and their relevance for sustainable development. Papers presenting inter-disciplinary approaches and academic-industrial industrial collaborations on service computing for collective intelligence are particularly encouraged.

This Workshop will be organized with oral presentations, followed by two rounds Workshop Knowledge Tea/ Café on two subjects on service oriented computing for collective intelligence, related to the papers (e.g., in order to assure less formal discussions among workshop participants). A plenary panel and report will close this Workshop.

Topics include (but are not limited to): services computing (e.g., Web services, cloud services); collective intelligence; the application of intelligent technologies to support collective intelligence in different domains (e.g., healthcare, finances, sales prediction), and the creation of new forms of (computational) collective intelligence.


Workshop article submission deadline is April 23, 2010.



Workshop Chair and Organizer: Claudia-Melania Chituc
Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal (FEUP-DEI) and LIACC
E-mail: cmchituc@fe.up.pt
Phone: +351-968376958 Fax: +351 22 557 4103
Mailing Address: FEUP-DEI, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal.