Trust and reputation are fundamental concepts in multi-agent systems, but at the same time are significant to human life. The purpose of this paper is to find a way to enhance collective intelligence within organizations. First, we present some perspectives concerning the concepts of collective intelligence, trust and reputation. Then we suggest four computational models of trust and reputation...

The Park Geun-hye Administration of Korea (2013–2017) aims to increase the level of transparency and citizen trust in government through the Government 3.0 initiative. This new initiative for public sector innovation encourages citizen-government collaboration and collective intelligence, thereby improving the quality of policy-making and implementation and solving public problems in a new way....

Future pervasive environments will take into consideration physical and digital social relations. Nowadays it is important use to collective intelligence, where the interpretation of context information can be harnessed as input for context-aware applications, especially for group collaboration. The use of collective intelligence represents new possibilities but also new challenges in terms of ...

In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual...

According to socio-constructivism approach, collective situations are promoted to favor learning in classroom, at a distance or in a blended educational context. So, many Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are provided to teachers but there are no clear studies about the way they are used and perceived. Our research is based on the hypothesis that practices of educational actors (...

A common criticism to simple majority voting rule is the slight support that such rule demands to declare an alternative as a winner. Among the distinct majority rules used for diminishing this handicap, we focus on majorities based on difference in support. With these majorities, voters are allowed to show intensities of preference among alternatives through reciprocal preference relations. Th...

The conventional value delivery business is based on a relationship between a manufacturer and a customer, or service provider and service receiver. As a break from that framework, Fujitsu has focused attention on co-creation processes, in which sharing of social values and new discoveries and recognitions are incorporated into development for innovation that creates new possibilities of utiliz...

Entity resolution is a critical component of data integration where the goal is to reconcile database references corresponding to the same real-world entities. Given the abundance of publicly available databases that have unresolved entities, we motivate the problem of quick and accurate resolution for answering queries over such ‘unclean’ databases. Since collective entity resolution approache...