Complex Systems and Collective Intelligence

A CCS’24 Satellite Workshop
September 2nd, Exeter, UK

Call For Participation: Deadline June 15th

The “Complex Systems and Collective Intelligence” Satellite Workshop will run as part of the 2024 Conference on Complex Systems which takes place in Exeter from September 2nd-6th with a warm up event in London on August 30th-31st.

This workshop will bring together researchers interested in how to leverage complexity science for achieving collective intelligence in real world domains such as healthcare, finance, smart cities, pandemics and the environment. It will include a combination of research talks, discussion sessions and guest speakers. This event will also introduce AI4CI, the UK’s National AI Research Hub on AI for Collective Intelligence, and highlight opportunities to work with the Hub and secure funding to support research into complex systems and collective intelligence.

If you are interested in complex systems and collective intelligence, please consider submitting a paper and/or attending the workshop as a participant, or get in touch with us to find out more about the workshop and the AI4CI Hub.

Workshop Vision

To address society’s most pressing challenges (climate change, epidemiology, financial stability, sustainability, healthcare, etc.) we must be able to reliably engineer important new kinds of Collective Intelligence:

“Connected communities of people, devices, data and software collaboratively sensing and interacting in real-time to achieve positive outcomes at multiple scales.”

Whether we are attempting to minimise the impact of the next global pandemic, prevent financial instability, encourage sustainable and liveable cities, combat social polarisation and climate disinformation on social media, or integrate clinical care and social support for patients with chronic illnesses, enabling smart behaviour at the level of the individual to inform and be informed by intelligence gathered from the collective is key.

Complex systems approaches are central to meeting this challenge.

This workshop brings together researchers from the fields of complex systems, collective intelligence, AI, human-computer interaction and key application domains such as smart cities, the environment, epidemics, finance, healthcare, etc., to present and discuss work that advances our understanding of how better to achieve collective intelligence in the real-world.

Why Submit a Paper?

For presenters, the workshop will be a chance to:

present your work to an interested audience
have your abstract archived and made freely available from this website
get support for developing your work into a research proposal for funding from the AI4CI Hub

(We will be exploring the possibility of remote presentations via video)

Why Attend the Workshop?

For all attendees, the workshop will be a chance to:

hear about work applying complex systems ideas to collective intelligence and vice versa
connect with the collective intelligence and complex systems research community
learn about the Collective Intelligence and Complexity journals and explore how to publish your work there
learn about the new AI4CI Hub and the opportunities that it provides for collaboration and research funding

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Relevant Research Topics

The workshop welcomes submissions on any of the following topics (or alternative topics related to the workshop):

Collective decision making in swarms, colonies, communities and crowds.
Relating network structure and dynamics to collective intelligence.
Achieving, measuring, monitoring and managing collective intelligence.
Consensus formation, quorum sensing and cohesion in complex populations.
Maintaining and respecting diversity in complex decision-making systems.
Community structure in complex networks.
Anticipating transitions in complex systems.
Complex systems methods for characterising collective intelligence.
Complex systems approaches to large-scale machine learning and AI.
Network science approaches to collective intelligence.
Information theoretic approaches to collective intelligence.
Agent-based modelling approaches to collective intelligence.
Designing for trust, transparency and usability in collective intelligence systems.
Complex systems approaches to individual decision support and collective policy making in the context of cities, the environment, finance, healthcare ecosystems, pandemics and other key problem domains.

The workshop welcomes submissions from any area of complex systems research and particularly seeks work from interdisciplinary researchers and those whose work has relevance to real-world applications in important collective decision-making domains.

Submit a Workshop Paper

Workshop papers should be submitted via EasyChair using the link below before the submission deadline: 15th June 2024.

(Please try to make your submission as early as possible to give us a chance to review your paper and provide feedback.)

Submissions can report research into complex systems and collective intelligence that is novel and unpublished, or has already been published elsewhere, or is currently at a preliminary stage or is work in progress. Submissions must make their relationship to the topic of the workshop clear.

Each submission should be a pdf conforming to the CCS’24 formatting guidelines – i.e., one page stating the title, the authors and their affiliations, and describing the work in the form of an abstract, plus an optional second page containing one figure plus caption. Full details and a LaTeX template are available from the above link. If you do not use the LaTeX template, please format your submission as closely as possible to the CCS’24 specification.

For this Workshop, submissions may also include a second pdf containing either supplementary material of up to 6 pages (subject to the same formatting constraints as the main submission), or a pdf of a previously published paper related to the workshop submission. In either case, this second pdf can be used to provide further informaton on methods and results.

EasyChair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csci2024

The AI4CI Research Hub

This workshop is organised by the AI4CI Research Hub, which is a research collaboration that brings together leading research groups from the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Ulster and UCL to form an integrated centre of gravity for a growing nationwide activity combining innovative research and development, community and capacity building, career development, public engagement, research translation, policymaking and governance organised around a clear central theme: new AI for Collective Intelligence.