T paper introduces a model of collective creativity that explains how the locus of creative problem solving shifts, at times, from the individual to the interactions of a collective. The model is grounded in observations, interviews, informal conversations, and archival data gathered in intensive field studies of work in professional service firms. The evidence suggests that although some creat...

With the rise of social networking sites (SNSs), individuals not only disclose personal information but also share private information concerning others online. While shared information is co-constructed by self and others, personal and collective privacy boundaries become blurred. Thus there is an increasing concern over information privacy beyond the individual level. Drawing on the Communica...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Parallel Workshops, UniversAAL training course, Tutorials Parallel Workshops (see list here) WISHWell’13 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being Location: XXXXXXX ARE'13 The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies Location: XXXXXXX PerCAM13 3rd International workshop on PERvasive and Context-Aware Mid...

Social movement actors seeking alternatives to the highly industrialized, global food system have been advocating for more sustainable, local food systems. Many of the local food movement strategies and initiatives to counter the conventional practices of the industrial food system have proven successful. Social movement researchers have documented the importance of the roles and services socia...

The effect of labor unions on economic performance is a crucial factor in evaluating public policy toward union organizing and bargaining rights. This paper evaluates theory and evidence on the relationship of unionization with respect to productivity, profitability, investment, and employment growth. The clear pattern that emerges from the research literature, primarily for the U.S. but also e...

Collective intelligence is currently a hot topic within the Web and Geoinformatics communities. Research into ways of producing advances with collective intelligence is becoming increasingly popular. This article introduces a novel approach to collective intelligence with the use of geographic knowledge discovery to determine spatially referenced patterns and models from the Geospatial Web whic...

This paper gives an upside-down view of the problem of collective intentionality by providing a treatment of the notion of intentional collective. Based on reviews of the relevant literature, we apply three formal-ontological tools of our choice (namely, DOLCE, D&S, and DDPO) to the definition of the notions of collection, agent, plan and collective, all underlying the concept of intentional co...